{"id":124677,"date":"2002-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kharaiti-lal-sons-vs-hari-singh-and-ors-on-3-january-2002"},"modified":"2017-07-29T20:17:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T14:47:50","slug":"kharaiti-lal-sons-vs-hari-singh-and-ors-on-3-january-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kharaiti-lal-sons-vs-hari-singh-and-ors-on-3-january-2002","title":{"rendered":"Kharaiti Lal &amp; Sons vs Hari Singh And Ors. on 3 January, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Delhi High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Kharaiti Lal &amp; Sons vs Hari Singh And Ors. on 3 January, 2002<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 2002 Delhi 335, 97 (2002) DLT 303, 2002 (62) DRJ 314<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: D Gupta<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: D Gupta, V Sen<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> Devinder Gupta, J.<\/p>\n<p> 1. From a perusal of the impugned Order it is at once evident that the Learned Single Judge had devised<br \/>\n the scheme of furnishing a copy of the questions proposed to be asked from the Defendant, with a view to<br \/>\n concluding his cross-examination with expedition.\n<\/p>\n<p> 2. However salutary that objective may be, it appears to us to be legally unchartered, and destructive of the very<br \/>\n purpose of cross-examination. This purpose has been succinctly stated in Meer Sujad Ali v. Kashee Nath, 6<br \/>\n WR 181, where it has been observed that &#8220;a skillful interrogation may produce by art that which usually<br \/>\n happens accidentally&#8221;. In Sarkar on Evidence, Fifteenth Edition 1999 Volume 2, it is opined that &#8211;<br \/>\n   &#8220;cross-examination is directed to (1) the credibility of the witness; (2) the facts to which he had deposed in<br \/>\n chief, including the cross-examiner&#8217;s version thereof; and (3) the facts to which the witness has not deposed<br \/>\n but to which the cross-examiner thinks he is able to depose. The object of cross-examination is two-fold&#8211;to<br \/>\n weaken, qualify, or destroy the case of the opponent; and to establish the party&#8217;s own case by means of his<br \/>\n opponent&#8217;s witnesses. The objects are to impeach the accuracy, credibility, and general value of the evidence<br \/>\n given in chief, to sift the facts already stated by the witness, to detect and expose discrepancies, or to<br \/>\n elicit suppressed facts which will support the case of the cross-examining party.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>  3. If a questionnaire is to be prepared and forwarded to the witness in advance its essential<br \/>\n purpose would be lost, since truth is usually extracted from the witness by dexterous surprise.\n<\/p>\n<p> 4. The Respondent has relied on the observations in Regina v. Da Silva, [1990] I.W.L.R. 31. These<br \/>\n observations, however, are of little avail since they contemplate a situation where in respect of a particular<br \/>\n question the witness may refer to contemporaneous writing made by him in answer thereto. The Court in<br \/>\n such instance would have to be satisfied that, in the circumstances, it would be proper to permit the witness<br \/>\n some time before an answer is made. This certainly would not apply to each and every question put to the<br \/>\n witness in cross-examination.\n<\/p>\n<p>  5. In these circumstances the impugned order cannot be sustained. The appeal is allowed and the<br \/>\n impugned Order is set aside with no order as to costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court Kharaiti Lal &amp; Sons vs Hari Singh And Ors. on 3 January, 2002 Equivalent citations: AIR 2002 Delhi 335, 97 (2002) DLT 303, 2002 (62) DRJ 314 Author: D Gupta Bench: D Gupta, V Sen JUDGMENT Devinder Gupta, J. 1. From a perusal of the impugned Order it is at once evident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kharaiti Lal &amp; Sons vs Hari Singh And Ors. on 3 January, 2002 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kharaiti-lal-sons-vs-hari-singh-and-ors-on-3-january-2002\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kharaiti Lal &amp; 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