Supreme Court Legal Update #34
The Hon’ble Supreme Court in Sudam Prabhakar Achat v. The State of Maharashtra (Neutral Citation: 2025 INSC 378) observed that “.......It is however a settled position of law that merely because the witnesses are relatives of the deceased and as such are interested witnesses, that alone cannot be a ground to discard their testimony. The only requirement is that the testimony of such witnesses has to be scrutinized with greater caution and circumspection. ....”
