Case Name : Mukesh Singh vs State (Narcotic Branch of Delhi)
Case Reference: (2020) 9 SCR 245 :
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Case Number: SLP (Crl) Diary No 39528/2018
Court: Supreme Court
Bench: 05
Coram: Arun Mishra, Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, MR Shah, Ravindra Bhat
Date: 31.08.2020
General proposition of law is that in each and every case where the informant is the investigator there is a bias caused to the accused and the entire prosecution case is to be disbelieved and the accused is entitled to acquittal;
Where the informant himself is the investigator, that itself will not vitiate the investigation from the vice of unfairness or bias.
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