25 November 1997
Supreme Court
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RAJINDER SING & ANR. Vs THE STATE OF BIHAR

Bench: G.T. NANAVATI,B.N. KIRPAL
Case number: Appeal Criminal 78 of 1989


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PETITIONER: RAJINDER SING & ANR.

       Vs.

RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF BIHAR

DATE OF JUDGMENT:       25/11/1997

BENCH: G.T. NANAVATI, B.N. KIRPAL

ACT:

HEADNOTE:

JUDGMENT:                THE 25TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1997 Present:               Hon’ble Mr. Justice G.T. Nanavati               Hon’ble Mr. Justice B.N. Kirpal M.K. Chaudhary,  Adv. for  S.K. Verma,  Adv. and  D.K. Garg, Advs. for the appellants G.B. Sathe, Adv. for A.K. Jha, Adv. for the Respondent                       J U D G M E N T      The following Judgment of the Court was delivered: NANAVATI. J.      Crl.  Misc.   Petition  6233/83   and  Crl.   M.P...... (application for  discharging the advocate from the matter ) are dismissed.      The  appellants   in  Criminal  Appeal  No.  78/89  are challenging their  conviction  and  the  order  of  sentence passed  by   the  First   Additional  Sessions  Judge,  East Chambaran, Motihari  in  S.T.  No.  138/69  of  1978/81  and confirmed by  the High  Court. Writ  Petition No.  543/92 is filed by  accused Ramayan  Singh whose  S.L.P.  was  earlier dismissed by this Court.      The appellant  have been  convicted on the basis of the evidence of  2 eye  witnesses P.W.  2 Amila  Devi and P.W. 3 Bhagwani Devi.  Both these  witnesses have  been believed by the trial court an also by the High Court. No good reason is advanced by the learned counsel for the appellant for taking different view  as regards  the credibility  of  these  e  2 witnesses. We  do not  find any infirmity in their evidence. merely  because  they  happened  to  be  sister  and  mother respectively  of  the  deceased  their  evidence  cannot  be discarded.  In  absence  of  any  infirmity  either  in  the appreciation of  their evidence  or in  the reasons given by the courts  below we  see no  reason to  interfere  in  this appeal  and   the  writ   petition.  Both   are,  therefore, dismissed. The appellants in criminal appeal are directed to surrender to custody to serve out the remaining sentence.