Aishwarya Rathore-
Published on: August 23, 2021, at 16:37 IST
The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court acquitted three convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to murder a man who helped a couple in their inter-caste marriage.
A Bench, comprising Justices V Bharathidasan and J Nisha Banu, observed, “While a mere delay in filing a First Information Report (FIR) may not be fatal to the prosecution, it raises suspicion when it is coupled with a delay in delivering the FIR copy to the Court.”
The Court stated that the eye-witnesses in the case were untrustworthy, and two previous statements made by eye-witnesses, which included a traffic police, who was on duty near the place of incident, were suppressed.
The Bench further added that it may look like an attempt to ‘build up a different case’ to implicate the accused.
The Court acquitted the trio since the prosecution failed to provide a reasonable explanation.
The order was made in response to the trio’s appeal of their conviction by a Lower Court in 2018.
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