Improvement of statement --- Effect --- Witness who improves his statement on material aspects of the case is untrustworthy
Medical evidence may confirm eye witness account about seat and nature of injuries , kind of weapon used in an occurrence , but it cannot identify the assailant .
Absconding of accused --- Prosecution sent 15 persons to face trial on the charge of murder --- Trial Court acquitted 7 persons of the charge while 8 were convicted out of which 6 were sentenced to death and two ladies were sentenced to imprisonment for life --- Validity --- Alleged absconding of accused persons after occurrence was not conclusive proof of their guilt --- Trial Court convicted accused persons on the same evidence on which it had acquitted 7 co - accused persons --- Neither the State nor the complainant challenged acquittal order before High Court --- High Court set aside conviction and sentence awarded to accused persons as there existed no independent corroborating evidence.
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