In Brief
Two men convicted by the High Court of murdering a police officer challenged their conviction before the Supreme Court. The trial court had acquitted them based on finding the prosecution's key evidence unreliable. The Supreme Court held that the High Court was wrong to reverse the acquittal. The Court emphasized that when the trial court rejects evidence of all three witnesses through whom a dying declaration is sought to be established, no dying declaration can exist in law. An appellate court must respect the trial court's advantage of observing witnesses in person and cannot reverse a reasoned acquittal based on mere reappreciation of evidence without addressing the trial court's actual reasoning. The appeals were allowed and the convictions set aside.
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