Short Note : 1. It is true that under the Evidence Act trustworthy evidence given by a. single witness would be enough to convict an accused person, whereas evidence given by half a dozen witnesses which is not trustworthy would not be enough to sustain the conviction. But where a criminal Court has to deal with evidence pertaining to the commission of an offence involving a large number of offenders and a large number of victims, it is usual to adopt the. test that the conviction could be sustained only if it is supported by two or three or more witnesses who give a consistent account of the incident. In a sense. the test may be described as mechanical; but it cannot be treated as irrational or unreasonable. It is no doubt the quality of the evidence that matters and not the number of witnesses, who give evidence. But sometimes it is useful to adopt a mechanical test. Masati and others v. State of U.P. AIR 1965 SC 202 , relied on. Appeal dismissed.