https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=303601 A witness's chief evidence cannot be relied on if the witness repeatedly avoids completion of cross-examination and thereby denies the other side a fair chance to test the testimony. In a suit for injunction, the plaintiff's evidence must be complete in law before it can remain on record. The Court distinguished cases where incomplete defence evidence resulted from involuntary or unavoidable reasons, and held those authorities did not assist a plaintiff whose own conduct caused the incompleteness. Section 33 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 could not validate evidence that was incomplete in law, so the incomplete evidence had to be eschewed. en-us Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:32:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=303601 A witness's chief evidence cannot be relied on if the witness repeatedly avoids completion of cross-examination and thereby denies the other side a fair chance to test the testimony. In a suit for injunction, the plaintiff's evidence must be complete in law before it can remain on record. The Court distinguished cases where incomplete defence evidence resulted from involuntary or unavoidable reasons, and held those authorities did not assist a plaintiff whose own conduct caused the incompleteness. Section 33 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 could not validate evidence that was incomplete in law, so the incomplete evidence had to be eschewed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=303601