Know what led Bombay High Court to grant bail to 22 Y/O murder accused
Bombay High Court considered the role pertaining to the applicant and him being a 22-years-old at the relevant time, the Court found him entitled to be enlarged on bail.
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[Triple Murder Case] Supreme Court confirms bail granted to woman by Rajasthan HC
The High Court referred to Section 437 of CrPC for grant of bail in a non-bailable offence in three specific circumstances.
Supreme Court grants bail to Disabled Person held in custody for 5+ years as undertrial prisoner in murder case
Supreme Court directed the petitioner to cooperate in the early conclusion of the trial and not to interact with any of the witnesses in the instant case.
Kerala High Court acquits parents who disposed of daughter in Arabian Sea, believing her to be lifeless
“There cannot be any doubt to the proposition that the burden to prove the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt is on the prosecution.”
Armed with iron rod but gave leg and fist blows; Punjab and Haryana High Court grants pre-arrest bail in a murder case
Punjab and Haryana High Court noted ASI’s submission regarding absence of complaint against the petitioner regarding threatening the witnesses, as against the contentions.
Section 118 of Evidence Act | Child witness easily susceptible to tutoring; corroborating testimony not a rule but a measure of caution and prudence: Supreme Court
Supreme Court did not deem it safe to base the conviction only on the testimony of child witness which did not inspire confidence and acquitted the appellant.
‘Chain of circumstantial evidence incomplete to interfere with acquittal’; Supreme Court affirms acquittal in 25-year-old case
Supreme Court concurred with the Punjab and Haryana High Court that incriminating circumstances were not proved beyond reasonable doubt and chain of evidence was not complete to interfere with a degree of certainty of accused having committed the crime.
“Courts below failed to evaluate testimonies on settled legal principles, resulting in grave miscarriage of Justice”; SC sets aside conviction in 22-year-old murder case
The Court said that the case in hand was a quintessential case where to solve a blind murder, occurring in a forest in the darkness of night, bits and pieces of evidence were collected.
Prosecution should explain the injuries on accused for a robust case, Supreme Court acquits man convicted in a 2006 murder case
While granting benefit of doubt to accused, the Supreme Court stated that “Taking into consideration the delay in lodging the FIR, with the circumstance of their names not being mentioned in the contemporaneous documents, the possibility of the said accused being falsely implicated cannot be ruled out.”
When evidence unambiguously proves the guilt, absence of motive cannot weaken the conclusions: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court refused to grant the benefit of General Exception of unsoundness of mind under IPC in favour of the appellant, since he failed to discharge his burden of proof.
Supreme Court calls out Rajasthan High Court for making ‘unwarranted observations’ while deciding a murder case remitted to it
It was observed that judicial discipline required that once the conviction was confirmed by the Supreme Court that too after hearing the accused, the High Court should not have thereafter made any comment on the merits of the case.