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HC: Can’t expect witness to have photographic memory

July 12, 2020 05:48 AM

COURTESY TOI JULY 12

HC: Can’t expect witness to have photographic memory
Ajay.Sura@timesgroup.com

Chandigarh:

The Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that a witness in a criminal case cannot be expected to have photographic memory. Justice Anil Kshetarpal of the high court ruled that “one cannot be expected to have eidetic/photographic memory. Natural variations do happen and such depositions are considered and relied upon by the courts after its careful analysis.”


He passed the order while dismissing a petition filed by two convicts, including a woman who was convicted along with her brother-in-law (sister’s husband) for sexually harassing her own underage daughter. The woman was living separately from her husband and had an illicit relationship with her sister’s husband, who had also tried to sexually exploit her daughter. The woman took the side of her brother-in-law when he tried to molest her daughter and even thrashed her whenever she complained about it.

The girl had filed a complaint in the public window of Chandigarh police in November 2014 after which an FIR was registered against her mother and uncle. The main complaint of the girl was that her uncle used to harass her sexually by making unwanted advances towards her.

Woman, her relative convicted by district court

She had also alleged that whenever she complained about it to her mother, she used to rebuke, beat and threaten her. The girl’s father had left the house in 2009 after a marital discord with her mother. However, after the complaint, her father and brother supported her in pursuing the matter in court.

The woman and her brother-in-law were convicted by Chandigarh district court — the man was convicted under Pocso Act and other sections of IPC and sentenced to a four years in jail and the mother got a three-year sentence.

Aggrieved by their conviction, the woman and her brother-in-law had approached the HC. In their appeal, their main contention was that there were several improvements in the statements/depositions made by the girl in the FIR, statement made under Section 164 before magistrate and the final deposition before the trial court. These improvements were regarding dates and timings of the incidents of sexual harassment and similar other details.

They argued that there were a lot of improvements in the girl’s statements and therefore, the case of the prosecution should be rejected by the court.

However, after dismissing their plea, the HC observed that it is well settled that an FIR is not expected to be an encyclopedia of the entire case of the prosecution. “An FIR is mere first information sent to the prosecuting agency for setting criminal law in motion. In these circumstances, it is wrong to expect that in the FIR, complete details of all the incidents must be disclosed. An FIR is not expected to contain the proposed evidence to be produced by the prosecution,” the HC observed while dismissing their appeal

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