Mehatar vs State Of Maharashtra 2025 INSC 216 - Murder Conviction Set Aside - Witness Testimony Partly Unreliable

Criminal Trial - When the witness is found to be wholly reliable, then there is no difficulty, inasmuch as the conviction could be based on the testimony of such a witness- Equally when the testimony of a witness is found to be wholly unreliable again the difficulty would not arise because such an evidence will have to be discarded. The difficulty arises when a witness is found to be partly reliable and partly unreliable. In such a case, the conviction could not be maintained unless there is some corroboration to the testimony of such a witness. (Para 18)