Police Officers as Witness : Supreme Court Explains the Law
An important Judgment was passed by Hon'ble Supreme Court on 15 May 2013.
It has been commented at page 9 of Kashmiri Lal v State of Haryana [2013] GCtR 404 (SC) thus : -
"There is no absolute command of law that the police officers cannot be cited as witnesses and their testimony should always be treated with suspicion. Ordinarily, the public at large show their disinclination to come forward to become witnesses. If the testimony of the police officer is found to reliable and trustworthy, the court can definitely act upon the same. If in the course of scrutinising the evidence the court finds the evidence of the police officer as unreliable and untrustworthy, the court may disbelieve him but it should not do so solely on the presumption that a witness from the department of police should be viewed with distrust. This is also based on the principle of quality of the evidence weighs over the quantity of evidence."
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