In Brief
A man was convicted of murdering his sister's elopement partner following a village dispute. The Supreme Court acquitted him, finding the prosecution case unreliable. The sole eyewitness was the victim's mother—an interested relative whose testimony contradicted the postmortem findings and was unsupported by the key informant witness who turned hostile. The postmortem report contained irreconcilable discrepancies the medical expert could not explain. Though the incident allegedly occurred on a busy main road with constant traffic, no independent witnesses were examined. The Court held that in murder cases, evidence must be sterling quality, uncorroborated testimony of interested relatives requires extreme caution, and conviction cannot rest on mathematical improbabilities and medical contradictions.
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