Reaffirming an essential rule of criminal jurisprudence, a division bench of the Supreme Court of India, comprising Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Manoj Misra, has held that it is not an inflexible rule of law that an approver’s testimony must be independently corroborated to form the basis of a conviction. The Court ruled that
Approver’s Evidence Can Sustain Conviction Even Without Independent Corroboration if Court Finds It Reliable: Supreme Court
