Attorney General v. Devunderage Nihal – sllr 2011 volume 1 page 409

In the case between Attorney General and Devunderage Nihal, the issue concerned whether a conviction for a drug-related offence, specifically under Section 54(a)(c) of the Poisons, Opium, and Dangerous Drugs Act, can be based solely on the evidence of a single key police witness without corroboration. The Supreme Court held that a conviction does not require corroborative evidence from more than one witness, relying on Section 134 of the Evidence Ordinance, which states that the testimony of a single witness is sufficient to establish a fact if found credible. The findings emphasized that, while caution should be exercised by trial judges when evaluating uncorroborated testimony, the substantive law does not necessitate corroboration in such cases. The conviction and sentence by the High C