https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312753 A criminal judge may question witnesses to elicit the truth, but only with strict impartiality and without intimidating or coercing them; where bench questioning and perjury warnings create a hostile atmosphere and undermine judicial neutrality, the resulting evidence is unsafe and the conviction cannot stand. Section 11 of the Evidence Act cannot be used to bypass the specific rules governing former statements of witnesses or to treat an FIR as corroboration of testimony in a manner that makes otherwise unreliable evidence admissible. On the facts described, the conviction was set aside and the accused was ordered to be released. en-us Wed, 25 Feb 1981 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:18:09 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312753 A criminal judge may question witnesses to elicit the truth, but only with strict impartiality and without intimidating or coercing them; where bench questioning and perjury warnings create a hostile atmosphere and undermine judicial neutrality, the resulting evidence is unsafe and the conviction cannot stand. Section 11 of the Evidence Act cannot be used to bypass the specific rules governing former statements of witnesses or to treat an FIR as corroboration of testimony in a manner that makes otherwise unreliable evidence admissible. On the facts described, the conviction was set aside and the accused was ordered to be released. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 25 Feb 1981 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=312753