https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194540 An appellate court may reverse an acquittal where the trial court's appreciation of evidence is perverse, and credible injured eyewitness testimony cannot be rejected for minor inconsistencies, omissions, or lack of corroboration on immaterial points. Related or interested witnesses are not to be discarded mechanically, the common object of an unlawful assembly may be inferred from surrounding circumstances, weapons used, and participant conduct, and non-explanation of injuries on an accused is only a relevant circumstance, not a complete answer to the prosecution case. Cryptic telephonic information did not displace the later prompt FIR. Convictions arising from the unlawful assembly were sustained for appellants consistently implicated, while others received benefit of doubt. en-us Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:47:09 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194540 An appellate court may reverse an acquittal where the trial court's appreciation of evidence is perverse, and credible injured eyewitness testimony cannot be rejected for minor inconsistencies, omissions, or lack of corroboration on immaterial points. Related or interested witnesses are not to be discarded mechanically, the common object of an unlawful assembly may be inferred from surrounding circumstances, weapons used, and participant conduct, and non-explanation of injuries on an accused is only a relevant circumstance, not a complete answer to the prosecution case. Cryptic telephonic information did not displace the later prompt FIR. Convictions arising from the unlawful assembly were sustained for appellants consistently implicated, while others received benefit of doubt. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=194540