It is the public duty of witnesses in a criminal case to give evidence whenever they receive summons from a court of law and therefore they cannot be heard to say that they shall not depose until all the accused in a case are arrested, the Madras High Court Bench here has said. Justice P.N. Prakash made the observation while closing a petition filed by a witness in a case booked by Tirupacheti police in Sivaganga district, challenging an order passed by a Sessions Court on October 4 splitting up the case into two since the police could not arrested the prime accused in the case. Not finding force in the petitioner’s plea, the judge said that the Sessions Court had split the case only because the police were unable to execute a non-bailable arrest warrant issued against the prime accused who had been hospitalised as he was suffering from a serious ailment. Report “A team of doctors too had examined A1 (the prime accused) and they have also given a report on September 15, 2015 in...