https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302182 At the stage of framing charge, the court must see whether the prosecution material, taken at face value, discloses the ingredients of the offence and creates grave suspicion. The Delhi HC noted that the earliest statements of the complainant and relatives named only two persons and expressly excluded others, while the petitioner's name surfaced later in delayed supplementary statements with material improvements and no explanation for the shift. As no other charge-sheet material independently linked the petitioner to the incident, the later version was unsafe to rely on. The charge under Section 302/34 IPC was therefore set aside and the petitioner discharged. en-us Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 09 May 2022 13:02:40 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302182 At the stage of framing charge, the court must see whether the prosecution material, taken at face value, discloses the ingredients of the offence and creates grave suspicion. The Delhi HC noted that the earliest statements of the complainant and relatives named only two persons and expressly excluded others, while the petitioner's name surfaced later in delayed supplementary statements with material improvements and no explanation for the shift. As no other charge-sheet material independently linked the petitioner to the incident, the later version was unsafe to rely on. The charge under Section 302/34 IPC was therefore set aside and the petitioner discharged. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302182