The Supreme Court has reiterated the well-settled position of law that the testimony of a witness cannot be discarded in toto merely due to the presence of embellishments or exaggerations in such testimony. A Bench of Justices NV Ramana and Mohan M Shantanagoudar held that the doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means “false in one thing, false in everything” is inapplicable in the Indian scenario. The judgment was rendered in the case of Menoka Malik v. State of West Bengal, an appeal against a judgment of Calcutta High Court which had acquitted eighty-two CPI (M) members […]
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