minor and insignificant. Therefore, being the third Court exercising jurisdiction under Article 136 of the Constitution, we have to tread a very careful path while considering the question of trustworthiness of these witnesses. 17. Unlike other cases, the appellant in this case has taken a defence right from the beginning that he was implicated falsely at the behest of a locally powerful person whose wife is the Pradhan of the village. The case projected by the appellant was (i) that his maternal grandfather was one Lazim Khan; (ii) that Lazim Khan’s brother was one Zalim Khan; (iii) that after the death of Lazim Khan, his property devolved upon the appellant’s mother Jannatul Nisha; (iv) that Zalim Khan wanted to grab the properties from the appellant’s mother but the appellant and his mother were not willing to let the land be taken away by Zalim Khan; and (v) that since Zalim Khan is a very powerful person in the village and his wife is also the Pradhan of the village, he managed to implicate the appellant falsely in this case. 18. To demonstrate the veracity of the above claim, the appellant did 3 things. First he confronted PWs 1 to 3 with pertinent 10