4 verified cases involving Acquittal, newest first.
The Supreme Court acquitted a man who had spent 22 years in jail due to wrongful conviction. The case exemplifies a failure in the judicial system where technical grounds were used to refuse hearing, prolonging an innocent person's incarceration.
The Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of twenty persons in a murder case. The Court found that the conviction was based on eyewitness accounts that were strikingly similar in nature, which the Court deemed improbable and therefore unreliable.
Five men were acquitted by the Chhattisgarh High Court in a case involving seizure of 833 kilograms of ganja. The court criticized the investigation as marked by 'casualness and indifference' and noted that the main accused had escaped custody. The High Court set aside convictions and sentences of up to 15 years imposed by the Special NDPS Court in Raipur.
The Supreme Court acquitted a husband and 17 in-laws in a dowry death case where charges were filed under Sections 498-A and 304-B IPC and Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The Court criticized the prosecution as frivolous.