In Brief
A group attacked the home of Sunil on Holi in 2012, leading to the death of Sunil's brother Dhanpal after severe injuries. The trial court convicted all 13 accused of rioting and murder. The High Court acquitted 11 accused, finding insufficient specific identification. The Supreme Court partly allowed the State's appeal, holding that the High Court had wrongly disregarded consistent eyewitness testimony attributing specific violent acts to the accused. The Court reinstated convictions for six accused (A1, A6, A7, A8, A10, A13) whose roles were corroborated by multiple witnesses, but upheld acquittals for five others lacking such corroboration, balancing evidential sufficiency against over-implication risks in mob violence cases.
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