In Brief
In this murder case, the Sessions Court convicted two brothers on circumstantial evidence and sentenced them to life imprisonment. The High Court acquitted them, finding the chain of circumstances incomplete. The Supreme Court upheld the acquittal, holding that the prosecution failed to establish key elements: motive (principal witness turned hostile), last seen theory (based on hearsay), and credible recovery evidence (weak extra-judicial confessions from stock witnesses, non-recovery of cycle, no blood on recovered materials). The Court ruled that mere absconding and false information cannot complete the circumstantial chain beyond reasonable doubt, and the High Court's judgment was a possible view warranting no interference on appeal against acquittal."
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