In Brief
Two police officers were convicted for custodial torture leading to the death of a suspect at Amraiwadi Police Station. The Supreme Court acquitted them, finding the eyewitness testimony unreliable due to unnatural conduct by the deceased's sisters and inconsistencies with medical evidence. The postmortem showed severe internal injuries (liver rupture, lung rupture, rib fractures) that would have prevented the victim from climbing five flights of stairs, yet evidence showed he did so immediately after allegedly being assaulted. The medical evidence established injuries were fresh but the court found insufficient evidence that they occurred during police custody rather than in jail. No motive was established, and an uninvolved co-accused suffered no injuries. The conviction was set aside and both accused acquitted.
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