https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169971 In appeals against acquittal, the appellate court may review the entire evidence but must give due weight to the presumption of innocence, reasonable doubt, and the trial court's advantage in assessing witnesses. Interference is justified only where the acquitting court's view is clearly unreasonable or compelling reasons exist to reverse it. On the facts noted, the High Court's acceptance of the prosecution version was unsustainable because of delay in lodging the report, the conduct attributed to the injured witnesses, doubtful and improved witness testimony, and inconsistencies in the prosecution narrative. The trial court's view was therefore held to be a reasonable one, and the conviction and sentence could not stand. en-us Fri, 21 Dec 1973 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 13 May 2015 17:18:01 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169971 In appeals against acquittal, the appellate court may review the entire evidence but must give due weight to the presumption of innocence, reasonable doubt, and the trial court's advantage in assessing witnesses. Interference is justified only where the acquitting court's view is clearly unreasonable or compelling reasons exist to reverse it. On the facts noted, the High Court's acceptance of the prosecution version was unsustainable because of delay in lodging the report, the conduct attributed to the injured witnesses, doubtful and improved witness testimony, and inconsistencies in the prosecution narrative. The trial court's view was therefore held to be a reasonable one, and the conviction and sentence could not stand. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 21 Dec 1973 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169971