https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=303473 A conviction on appeal against acquittal cannot stand where the sole identifying witness is a very young child whose evidence contains material infirmities and is not safely corroborated. The Court noted that no test identification parade was held, the child's dock identification was unsafe, and his age made him vulnerable to tutoring. It also found that the co-accused's confession, recorded in police custody and while handcuffed, lacked the safeguards of voluntariness and had been retracted, while the recoveries and alleged motive were only weak corroborative material. As the trial court's appreciation of evidence was reasonable, the High Court was not justified in reversing the acquittal and the conviction and sentence were set aside. en-us Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:11:27 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=303473 A conviction on appeal against acquittal cannot stand where the sole identifying witness is a very young child whose evidence contains material infirmities and is not safely corroborated. The Court noted that no test identification parade was held, the child's dock identification was unsafe, and his age made him vulnerable to tutoring. It also found that the co-accused's confession, recorded in police custody and while handcuffed, lacked the safeguards of voluntariness and had been retracted, while the recoveries and alleged motive were only weak corroborative material. As the trial court's appreciation of evidence was reasonable, the High Court was not justified in reversing the acquittal and the conviction and sentence were set aside. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=303473