https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=170045 An appellate court may interfere with an acquittal where the lower court's findings are perverse or unsupported by the record, and the High Court's reversal of the trial court was unsustainable on that basis. The testimony of an injured witness carries special evidentiary weight, and related witnesses cannot be disbelieved merely because of relationship or minor discrepancies when the core prosecution case remains intact. A prompt FIR, supported by medical evidence, and the absence of independent witnesses did not make the prosecution version unreliable; the conviction and sentences were restored. en-us Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:42:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=170045 An appellate court may interfere with an acquittal where the lower court's findings are perverse or unsupported by the record, and the High Court's reversal of the trial court was unsustainable on that basis. The testimony of an injured witness carries special evidentiary weight, and related witnesses cannot be disbelieved merely because of relationship or minor discrepancies when the core prosecution case remains intact. A prompt FIR, supported by medical evidence, and the absence of independent witnesses did not make the prosecution version unreliable; the conviction and sentences were restored. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=170045