In Brief
Ramji Singh and two co-accused were convicted of murder and rioting under the IPC for killing Sarman Singh in a broad daylight attack in a field dispute motivated by political rivalry. The trial court acquitted them, finding the eye-witness testimony unreliable due to alleged contradictions with medical evidence and the witnesses' interested status. The High Court reversed, finding the medical and ocular evidence corroborated. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, holding that direct, consistent eye-witness testimony supported by medical evidence should not be discredited merely because witnesses are interested parties with prior enmity, and that technical objections about injury directions based on an imprecise site plan do not override credible evidence.
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