BHAGWAT Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BARKAT Ali Zaidi, J. The accused comes up before this Court under Section 482 Criminal Procedure Code. He is one of the four accused hauled up for theft of electric wires.

(2.) I have heard Sri Rupesh Srivastava Advocate for the applicant and learned A. G. A. for the State.

(3.) THE contention of Sri Rupesh Srivastava that the evidence of co-accused is not admissible in evidence, flies in the face of Indian Evidence Act, 1872, which is one of our Fundamental Laws. Illustration (b) of Section 114 of Indian Evidence Act is as follows: " (b) that an accomplice is unworthy of credit, unless he is corroborated in material particulars. "