{"id":45925,"date":"2016-11-28T04:51:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T23:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=45925"},"modified":"2016-11-28T04:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T23:21:01","slug":"state-expected-play-role-witness-protection-programme-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/state-expected-play-role-witness-protection-programme-sc","title":{"rendered":"State expected to play role in witness protection programme: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44262\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44262\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/centre-files-caveat-sc-issue-delhis-ut-status\/supreme-court-1\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"276,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-44262 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?resize=276%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"State expected to play role in witness protection programme: SC\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?w=276&amp;ssl=1 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/supreme-court-1.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State expected to play role in witness protection programme: SC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The State needs to play a definite role in coming out with witness-protection programme, at least in sensitive cases involving those having political patronage, muscle and money power so that trial does not get &#8220;tainted and derailed&#8221;, the Supreme Court has said.<\/p>\n<p>Observing that threat and intimidation were major causes for witnesses turning hostile, it said when the witnesses are not able to depose correctly before the court, it results in low conviction rate and many times even hardened criminals escape the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It shakes public confidence in the criminal justice delivery system,&#8221; a bench of justices A K Sikri and Amitava Roy said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is for this reason there has been a lot of discussion on witness protection and from various quarters demand is made for the state to play a definite role in coming out with witness-protection programme, at least in sensitive cases involving those in power, who have political patronage and could wield muscle and money power, to avert trial getting tainted and derailed and truth becoming a casualty,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The bench noted in its verdict that it has become a common phenomenon and almost a regular feature that in criminal cases witnesses turn hostile.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s observation came while dismissing an appeal filed by four persons, who were convicted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court for the offences of murder and subjecting a married woman to cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>They were initially acquitted by a trial court but the high court had overturned the judgement and convicted them while relying on the dying declaration of the woman, who was set ablaze by the accused persons in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The husband and in-laws of the deceased woman had moved the apex court challenging the high court&#8217;s judgement, saying there was no reason to rely on the dying declaration as there were certain infirmities in it.<\/p>\n<p>Police had registered the case against them based on the statement given by the woman, who was admitted to a hospital with 100 per cent burn injuries and had died during treatment.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; 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Observing that threat and intimidation were major causes for witnesses turning hostile, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":44262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,31987,117,80,20529,47726,38119],"class_list":["post-45925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-court","tag-featured","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-state-government","tag-supreme-court","tag-witness-protection-programme"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State expected to play role in witness protection programme: SC - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The State needs to play a definite role in coming out with witness-protection programme, at least in sensitive cases involving those having political - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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