In Brief
Amrish Rana was convicted under IPC Sections 307, 147, 148 and Section 25 of the Arms Act for his alleged involvement in a shooting incident. The sole witness (PW11), a jail warder, did not name the appellant in the FIR, instead identifying only Gurjant Singh and four unknown persons. In court, PW11 testified that the appellant was present and that he knew him from jail, attributing the second shot to the appellant rather than to an unknown assailant as he had stated to police. The Supreme Court found these material omissions and contradictions—particularly the first-time naming of the appellant in court—created reasonable doubt about the appellant's presence at the occurrence. Accordingly, the appeal was allowed and the appellant acquitted.
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