https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309784 Reliable eyewitness testimony, treated as natural and corroborated by surrounding circumstances, was held sufficient to displace the High Court's rejection of the prosecution case and restore the trial court convictions. The Court found the identification of the assailants trustworthy and concluded that the acquittal could not be sustained on the evidence. On sentence, although the matter involved double murder, the extreme penalty of death was not maintained in the circumstances and was reduced to imprisonment for life. The prosecution case was ultimately treated as proved beyond reasonable doubt, with the acquittal reversed and the convictions restored. en-us Fri, 12 Oct 1979 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:01:02 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309784 Reliable eyewitness testimony, treated as natural and corroborated by surrounding circumstances, was held sufficient to displace the High Court's rejection of the prosecution case and restore the trial court convictions. The Court found the identification of the assailants trustworthy and concluded that the acquittal could not be sustained on the evidence. On sentence, although the matter involved double murder, the extreme penalty of death was not maintained in the circumstances and was reduced to imprisonment for life. The prosecution case was ultimately treated as proved beyond reasonable doubt, with the acquittal reversed and the convictions restored. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 12 Oct 1979 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=309784