1980 (3) TMI 255

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....ioner in the revision application and those urged during the course of personal hearing and have examined the records of the case. 2.  Government observe that the recovery of 100 gold bars from the person of Shri Shripad Rajaram Chari has not been denied, nor the fact of recovery from the petitioner's room of a jacket of the same type as Shri Chari was wearing and in which the gold bars were....

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....ivered. On this ground, learned Counsel for the petitioner submitted during the course of personal hearing that it is well settled law that no conviction could be based merely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-accused. 3. Government observe that though the quasi-judicial authorities are not bound by the Evidence Act it is seen that in a strict application of the Evidence Act a convicti....

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.... by him implicating the petitioner are quits natural. The petitioner has himself admitted that Shri Shripad Rajaram Chari was one of his friends. It, therefore, cannot be believed that Shri Shripad Rajaram Chari, the co-accused, might have tried to falsely implicate the petitioner. The petitioner has failed to show that the testimony of Shri Chari implicating him was false or prompted by enmity. G....