In Brief
Amrik Singh and Subhash Chander were convicted of murder and robbery based primarily on eyewitness identification in court by the complainant (PW1), who had not provided a description of the accused in the FIR. No test identification parade was conducted. The Supreme Court held that conviction solely on first-time court identification without a prior identification parade is unsafe, particularly when the witness failed to describe the accused to police and the FIR contained no identifying details. The Court also noted the prosecution failed to prove the alleged cash looted matched the amounts recovered. The Court allowed the appeals and acquitted the accused.
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