The Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence awarded to four persons in a murder case based on the testimony of a solitary eyewitness, observing that in matters related to criminal trials, the quality of witnesses was more important than quantity
In an affidavit filed in the apex court, the BCI has opposed Centre's stand that a special unit within the police force be given the task and said that the judiciary should form a separate force under its control and should not be dependent on governments and police force for this purpose.
It was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Russian novelist and philosopher, who on arrest asked the question: “Me? What for?” This has been retold in the opening page of his chronicle, The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn suffered eight years’ hard labour in a Soviet prison during the Stalinist era