https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180860 In an appeal against acquittal, reversal is justified only where the trial court's view is perverse or manifestly unsustainable, and the appellate court must respect the strengthened presumption of innocence after acquittal. Applying that standard, the High Court's reversal was unwarranted on the material before it. The prosecution also failed to prove a complete chain of circumstantial evidence: the alleged phone calls, cyanide-related evidence, and motive were found unreliable or inadequately proved, with unresolved contradictions. As the circumstances did not exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence, the conviction could not be sustained and the trial court's acquittal was restored. en-us Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:49:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180860 In an appeal against acquittal, reversal is justified only where the trial court's view is perverse or manifestly unsustainable, and the appellate court must respect the strengthened presumption of innocence after acquittal. Applying that standard, the High Court's reversal was unwarranted on the material before it. The prosecution also failed to prove a complete chain of circumstantial evidence: the alleged phone calls, cyanide-related evidence, and motive were found unreliable or inadequately proved, with unresolved contradictions. As the circumstances did not exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence, the conviction could not be sustained and the trial court's acquittal was restored. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180860