In Brief
This case involved appeals against the acquittal of accused persons charged with murder of Satinder Pal Singh. While eyewitnesses testified that an accused inflicted knife wounds followed by gunshot wounds, the medical expert—a prosecution witness—conclusively established that the knife wounds were inflicted post-mortem and only two gunshot entry wounds were present. The Supreme Court upheld the High Court's acquittal, finding the ocular evidence irreconcilably contradicted by medical evidence. Additional infirmities—failure to seek immediate hospital care despite the crime occurring in a hospital, reporting to a distant milk chilling centre, and lack of ballistic evidence—further undermined the prosecution's credibility. The appeals were dismissed as the acquittal was justified.
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