In Brief
Two appellants were convicted of murder under Section 302 IPC based on being the last persons seen with the deceased on 26 December 2004 at 1:30 p.m., before the body was discovered four days later. The Supreme Court allowed the appeal and acquitted the appellants. The Court held that while 'last seen together' is strong circumstantial evidence, it requires close temporal and spatial proximity to the death and supporting corroboration. Here, the two-day gap between sighting and estimated death, combined with absence of corroborating evidence, created reasonable doubt about guilt, insufficient for conviction.
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