In Brief
Mangi Lal was convicted under IPC Sections 302/34 and 323/34 for his role in a homicide. He applied to suspend his sentence pending his criminal appeal. The court found his circumstances indistinguishable from his co-accused, who had already been granted bail. Notable discrepancies between the prosecution's account of multiple blows and medical evidence of a single blow provided strong grounds to challenge the conviction. Given the applicant's seven-and-a-half-year incarceration and anticipated delay in appeal hearing, the court suspended the sentence and released him on bail with specified conditions and sureties."
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