https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309786 Related or interested eyewitness testimony can be accepted when it is natural, consistent and corroborated by prompt contemporaneous conduct, the earliest report and surrounding circumstances; on that basis, the Court found the High Court had wrongly discarded the injured and related witnesses and restored the convictions of Accused 1 to 11 and 16 to 19. Where the earliest report did not name Accused 12 to 15 and no specific overt act was attributed to them, mere association with the and recovery material was insufficient to sustain convictions, so their acquittal was maintained. en-us Tue, 19 Aug 1986 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:06:47 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309786 Related or interested eyewitness testimony can be accepted when it is natural, consistent and corroborated by prompt contemporaneous conduct, the earliest report and surrounding circumstances; on that basis, the Court found the High Court had wrongly discarded the injured and related witnesses and restored the convictions of Accused 1 to 11 and 16 to 19. Where the earliest report did not name Accused 12 to 15 and no specific overt act was attributed to them, mere association with the and recovery material was insufficient to sustain convictions, so their acquittal was maintained. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 19 Aug 1986 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309786