Evidence has to be weighed and not counted
The time-honoured principle is that evidence has to be weighed and not counted. On this principle stands the edifice of Section 134 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Thus, there is no legal impediment in convicting a person on the sole testimony of a single witness. It is not the number, the quality, but the quality that is material. The Supreme Court held, test is whether the evidence has a ring of truth, is cogent, credible and trustworth, or otherwise.
[Kunju @ Balachandran vs. State of
