Crl.A. No. 447 of 2005
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 447 OF 2005
STATE OF PUNJABAPPELLANT
VERSUS
CHARANJIT SINGHRESPONDENT
O R D E R
1. We have heard the learned counsel for the parties.
2. It is clear from the counter affidavit filed by the
respondent that he has been acquitted in all the cases
including the one in which he was in custody in Tihar Jail
and from where he had been removed under production
warrant to the State of Punjab and had made disclosure
statements before the police leading to the recovery of
large quantities of explosives etc. The fact that the
respondent had been acquitted in all other cases that have
been referred to by the learned counsel for the
respondent, has not been denied by the State of Punjab in
its rejoinder affidavit filed in response to the counter
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affidavit. The High Court has also held that no valid sanction had been given prior to the trial of the respondent and that as all the witnesses were police witnesses no credence could be attached to their testimony. We are, therefore, not inclined to interfere in this matter. The appeal is dismissed.
..................J [HARJIT SINGH BEDI] ...................J [GYAN SUDHA MISRA]
NEW DELHI JULY 21, 2011.