In Brief
The Supreme Court dismissed a criminal appeal by accused (appellants 2-5) convicted by the High Court for murder and rioting, after they had been acquitted by the trial court. The case involved an alleged assault on the deceased resulting in his death. The Supreme Court held that the trial court had wrongly disbelieved credible eyewitness testimony of injured witnesses (wife and brother-in-law of the deceased) merely because they were related to the deceased, ignoring that their accounts were consistent with the complaint and postmortem findings. The Court confirmed the High Court's reversal of acquittal, finding the trial court's judgment perverse and contrary to evidence, and upheld convictions for murder under Section 302 read with Section 149 IPC based on the appellants' common object and intentional assault."
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