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Article: Appellate court can interfere with trial court's acquittal: HC
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- The Hindustan Times
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- November 9, 2005
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NEW DELHI, India, Nov 9 -- THE ALLAHABAD High Court has ruled that if the trial court acquits an accused by giving undue importance to minor discrepancies and takes suspicious view of the evidence based on conjectures and surmises, then the appellate court will be justified in interfering with the order of acquittal.
Giving this ruling, the court convicted and sentenced two accused Surendra and Kripal Singh to undergo five years' rigorous imprisonment for brutally assaulting victim Barmadin. The two accused along with their father Ujiyarey Lal were tried by VIII Additional Sessions Judge, Etawah and were acquitted on September 15, 1981 of the charge under section 307 (attempt to murder) of ...