In Brief
The State of Karnataka appealed against the High Court's acquittal of two accused persons in a murder case where all three accused were initially convicted by the trial court for conspiring to murder the deceased. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, holding that the prosecution's evidence—based mainly on extra-judicial confessions to friends and photographs—was insufficient to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Witnesses who gave the confessions later resiled from their statements when cross-examined. Photographs showing an illicit relationship between two accused proved the relationship but not conspiracy to murder. The Court found no compelling reason or substantial infirmity to interfere with the acquittal order."
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