CN-0166Concepts · Evidence · Wanted
Accomplice
Scope
A participant in the crime who gives evidence for the prosecution, and why corroboration is required in practice though not in law.
Authorities to start from
- Indian Evidence Act, 1872, §§ 114 illus. (b), 133 (now Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, §§ 119, 138)
- Rameshwar v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1952 SC 54
- Haroom Haji Abdulla v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1968 SC 832
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