New Delhi:
The Supreme Court on Friday acquitted six murder accused after a majority witnesses, including the victim’s son,, including the victim’s son, became hostile in the case.
The “unresolved crime” saw 71 out of the total 87 witnesses with his statements.
A bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran separated the Karnataka High Court’s order of 27 September 2023, which dismissed the discovery of the trial court and convicted six accused in the case.
Justice Chandran said in the 49-page work, “With a heavy heart for an unresolved crime, but there is absolutely no misunderstanding on the issue of lack of evidence, against the accused, we acquit the accused, reversing the High Court verdict and restoring the trial court,” Justice Chandran said in a workdick of the 49-tree.
The bench said the witnesses in the court in a hostile and “extreme enthusiastic” investigation, which was in “the total ignorance of the basic principles of criminal law” in “often” prosecution for a joke “.
“Witnesses mounted the box to displace the previous statements, rejected the recovery, ignorance of aggressive conditions and witnesses were blinded during the investigation. There is a classic case of 71 out of a total of 87 witnesses in which there is a classic case of 71 with a total of 87 witnesses, including eyes, surprising, police and official witnesses left the prosecution.”
The court said, “Even a young boy, important eyewitnesses, who saw his father had been killed, failed to identify the attackers.” The High Court, the apex court said, “Rely on the testimony of police and official witnesses to convict the accused.
The bench said, “We cannot say that the High Court has convicted the accused under the leadership of the leadership and has jumped into projections and perceptions based on the story script by the prosecution without any legal evidence.”
After analyzing evidence and testimony of witnesses, the “sole scene” of the court organized a complete prosecution failure in proving the allegations against the accused.
“More and more witnesses became hostile during the test,” said this.
“Whatever the reason behind such enmity is, it cannot be in a punishment, based on the testimony of the investigating officers, which is established only on the statements of Section 161 CRPC and voluntary statements of the accused; pre -violations of Section 162 of CRPC and violation of Section 25 and 26 Evidence Act,” organized by the bench.
Directing the release of the accused, if there is no need in custody and in any other case, the court said, “The truth is always a chimera and the illusion around it is only led by valid evidence, either direct or indirectly, and provides a series of circumstances in its position, which is for any laughter, for any mockery, and only a blame for any mockery, and only a blame is to be blamed with any kind Is.
“This is a professional threat, every judge should remain, which may not be an inspiration to run the path of righteousness and to blame the accused in any way, even when there is a total absence of legal evidence, a purely orphan to criminal jurisprudence,” to enter a purely moral punishment, “.
It came on a record that a Ramakrishna died as a result of a rivalry between the two brothers, who worked for one of them before joining another brother.
The former employee along with his six colleagues conspired and killed Ramakrishna for loyalty after walking with his son on April 28, 2011, the police accused the police.
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