In Brief
Balwan Singh was convicted of murder and criminal intimidation under IPC Sections 302, 148, and 149. His appeal challenged the credibility of eyewitness evidence (PW9, PW16) recorded eight days after the incident without prior arrest of the accused, suggesting prosecution tampering. The Court also found the evidence of other witnesses vague and unreliable. Critically, blood-stained weapons were recovered but lacked forensic confirmation of human blood origin or blood-group matching to the accused. The Supreme Court allowed the appeal, holding that planted eyewitness testimony and unsubstantiated physical evidence cannot sustain convictions for grave offences.
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