Testimony of police officials

Evidence of a police witness is as reliable as any other witness provided that no enmity exists between them and the accused.

Such testimony was as good as any other private witness unless it was proved that the police officials had animus against the accused.

No doubt police witnesses are as good as other independent witnesses and conviction could be recorded on their evidence, but their testimony should be reliable, dependable, trustworthy and confidence worthy and if such qualities are missing in their evidence, no conviction could be passed on the basis of evidence of police witnesses.

Evidence of the police was as goods as of any other witness provided that there was no enmity between the police and the accused and none had been shown in that case and thus evidence of police would be believable.

Police eye-witness was as good as any other witness provided that no ill will, enmity, mala fide or personal interest was proved against him vis a vis the accused.

Police witnesses are as good witnesses as any other witness until the defence could have successfully shattered their credibility or brought on record any mala fide of police witnesses to depose against the accused

Depositions of police witnesses could not be brushed aside merely on the bald allegation that they happened to be employees of police department.

Testimony of Police officialwas as good as evidence of any other witness unless the accused was able to establish that the police witness who appeared against him had personal motive/mala fides to falsely implicate him in the offence.

Act of terrorism, possession of unlicensed arms, keeping explosive with intent to endanger life or property, possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances, proof of information received from accused

Appreciation of evidence

Corroboration of evidence

Testimony of police officials

Scope

Prosecution case against accused was that he, during the course of investigation in another case had disclosed that he had concealed huge quantity of arms, ammunition and explosive material in a grave

Accused voluntarily led the police party to the graveyard and pointed out the grave

Police, during the digging of the grave, recovered arms, ammunition and explosive material

Mashirnama of recovery was prepared in the presence of mashirs, which was signed by both the mashirs

Mashirs had fully supported the version of the complainant and one of them had denied the assertion that the mashirnama was prepared at police station

Official of Bomb Disposal Unit had also corroborated the prosecution case and had admitted during cross-examination that the entire arms, ammunition and explosive material was recovered from one graveyard

No proof of enmity between the complainant and the prosecution witnesses was brought on record

Reports of Bomb Disposal Unit and Forensic Science Laboratory regarding arms, ammunition and explosive substance were sufficient to prove that they could be used for demolishing the law and order situation and creating a sense of insecurity, fear and terrorism in public-at-large

Prosecution had succeeded in bringing the guilt of accused at home and had proved its case against the accused beyond any shadow of doubt

Appeals were dismissed.

Mere status as a police official alone does not prejudice the competence of such witness until and unless he is proved to be interested, who has a motive to falsely implicate an accused or has previous enmity with the person involved.

Evidence of police officials was as good as other witnesses but when the whole case was based upon the evidence of police officials, their evidence was required to be minutely scrutinized.

Police witnesses were as reliable as any other witness provided that no ill will, mala fide or personal interest was alleged against them.

Scope-Police Officials were as good as private witnesses and their testimony could not be discarded merely for the reason that they were Police Officials, unless the defense succeeded in proving their mala fide or ill-will against the accused.

Testimony of police witnesses was as reliable as any other witness unless any ill will or enmity had been attributed to them.

Police witness was as good as any other witness provided that no ill will, enmity, mala fide or personal interest was proven against him vis-a-vis the accused.

Mere fact that prosecution witnesses were Police Officials, by itself could not be considered a ground to discard their statements

Police Officials were as good witnesses as private persons of the society.

Police Officials were as good as private witnesses and their testimony could not be discarded merely for the reason that they were Police Officials, unless the defence would succeed in giving dent to the statements of prosecution witnesses and prove their mala fide or ill-will against accused.

Police witnesses were as good witnesses as any other witness until and unless the defence could have successfully shattered their credibility or brought on record any mala fide of police witnesses to depose against the accused.

Police officials were as good witnesses as any other public person unless it was proved that they were biased for some extraneous reason.