In Brief
Ombir Singh was convicted of murdering a well-known local politician in a residential locality. The Trial Court had acquitted a co-accused (Pramod Singh) on the ground that no cartridges or pellets were recovered from the crime scene and the post-mortem showed no pellet injuries. The Supreme Court upheld Singh's conviction, finding that the evidence on record—including police evidence of eyewitnesses at the scene—sufficiently established guilt. The Court rejected Singh's argument that he deserved the same acquittal as his co-accused, finding their cases distinguishable. The appeal was dismissed.
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