https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=313361 Trustworthy eyewitness testimony can sustain a murder conviction even where the investigation is delayed or imperfect. The Court accepted evidence that the accused attacked the deceased with knives and caused his death, and held that delays in recording eyewitness statements, omissions such as failure to mention the crime number in the inquest report, absence of one witness's name in the FIR, and non-examination of another witness did not by themselves discredit otherwise reliable evidence. Applying the principle that defective investigation should not lead to acquittal when the prosecution case is otherwise proved, the Court upheld the conviction and sentence. en-us Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:16:54 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=313361 Trustworthy eyewitness testimony can sustain a murder conviction even where the investigation is delayed or imperfect. The Court accepted evidence that the accused attacked the deceased with knives and caused his death, and held that delays in recording eyewitness statements, omissions such as failure to mention the crime number in the inquest report, absence of one witness's name in the FIR, and non-examination of another witness did not by themselves discredit otherwise reliable evidence. Applying the principle that defective investigation should not lead to acquittal when the prosecution case is otherwise proved, the Court upheld the conviction and sentence. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=313361