In respect of this crime as also in respect of the crime of false accusation and false testimony, a time honoured precaution which the English Common Law of Evidence imposed in prosecutions for perjury and which the Perjury Act, 1911, perpetuated, is also contained in our Code. By Sec. 635 no person can be convicted of false accusation, false testimony or perjury on the bare testimony of a single witness contradicting the fact previously stated on oath by the accused. Otherwise, there would be but one man’s oath against another's, the statement originally sworn to by the accused and, on the other hand, the contradiction of it now sworn to by the witness for the prosecution. But it is sufficient if the evidence of the single witness is confirmed in some fact material to establish the alleged crime by other evidence duly adduced.
9. Suppression of Evidence Section 110 lays down: “Whosoever shall hinder any person from giving the necessary information or evidence in any civil or criminal proceedings, or to or before any competent authority, shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term from four months to one year or to a fine (multa). (ii) Whosoever, in any case not otherwise provided for in this Code, shall knowingly suppress, or in any other manner destroy or alter the traces of, or any circumstantial evidence relating to an offence, shall, on conviction, be liable (a) if the offence is a crime liable to a punishment not less than that of hard labour or imprisonment for a term of one year, to the punishment laid down in subsection (i) of this section, (b) in the case of any other offence, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to detention or to a fine (ammenda) of not less than one pound. As Jameson pointed out159: “The administration of justice may also be obstructed and the interests of individuals injured by the suppression of evidence as well as by its fabrication. The Criminal 159
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