https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=284548 Conviction under Section 302/34 IPC and Section 27 of the Arms Act was held unsustainable where the prosecution depended mainly on close relatives of the deceased, no independent witness was examined despite the presence of other persons, and the eye-witness accounts were materially inconsistent on key facts. Serious doubt also arose over the place and timing of occurrence, the absence of the station diary entry, and whether the fardbeyan or earlier police information formed the basis of the FIR. Taken together, these defects rendered the prosecution version unreliable beyond reasonable doubt and entitled the accused to the benefit of doubt and acquittal. en-us Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:18:55 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=284548 Conviction under Section 302/34 IPC and Section 27 of the Arms Act was held unsustainable where the prosecution depended mainly on close relatives of the deceased, no independent witness was examined despite the presence of other persons, and the eye-witness accounts were materially inconsistent on key facts. Serious doubt also arose over the place and timing of occurrence, the absence of the station diary entry, and whether the fardbeyan or earlier police information formed the basis of the FIR. Taken together, these defects rendered the prosecution version unreliable beyond reasonable doubt and entitled the accused to the benefit of doubt and acquittal. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=284548