I was appointed as enquiry officer to conduct DE NOVO proceedings by the appellate authority from the stage of examination of witnesses. There were four Defence witnesses and I have someone on the witnesses for examination out of which one witness was died and the two witnesses turned hostile other witness was the departmental witness.
Now the question before me is this
should I consider previous deposition given by these witnesses in the previous enquiry
or should I take the depositions given before me
The two witnesses who turned hostile given the deposition in favour of prosecution in the earlier enquiry but now they turn hostile
Please help
Anil
