Witness Can Be Called 'Interested' Only When He/She Derives Some Benefit Seeing An Accused Person Punished: SC [Read Judgment]

The witness may be called "interested" only when he or she derives some benefit from the result of a litigation in the decree in a civil case, or in seeing an accused person punished, the Supreme Court observed while rejecting a defence contention in a criminal appeal. In Sadayappan @ Ganesan vs. State, the defense had raised an argument that the testimonies of interested...