https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310634 An acquittal may be reversed where the appellate court's distrust of prosecution witnesses is based on conjecture rather than the record. The SC noted that credible ocular evidence from injured eye-witnesses, a prompt first information report, medical support, recovery of exploded hand-grenade parts, and surrounding circumstances consistently established the occurrence at the deceased's house. It held that the High Court's reasons for rejecting this evidence were unwarranted and amounted to a manifestly unreasonable appreciation of the proof, causing miscarriage of justice. The acquittal was set aside and the trial court convictions restored, with the sentence under Section 302 IPC modified to life imprisonment. en-us Mon, 06 Aug 1973 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 03 Nov 2023 15:48:31 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310634 An acquittal may be reversed where the appellate court's distrust of prosecution witnesses is based on conjecture rather than the record. The SC noted that credible ocular evidence from injured eye-witnesses, a prompt first information report, medical support, recovery of exploded hand-grenade parts, and surrounding circumstances consistently established the occurrence at the deceased's house. It held that the High Court's reasons for rejecting this evidence were unwarranted and amounted to a manifestly unreasonable appreciation of the proof, causing miscarriage of justice. The acquittal was set aside and the trial court convictions restored, with the sentence under Section 302 IPC modified to life imprisonment. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 06 Aug 1973 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310634