Part of the Forensic Docket on Legal Desire Forensics — a case where forensic or identification evidence broke down on appeal.
The facts
The ballistic expert’s own opinion showed the cartridge recovered had not been fired from the gun allegedly used by the accused.
The Court held the accused was entitled to the benefit of doubt and that the High Court had not been justified in convicting on that record.
Why this belongs in the Forensic Docket: When the ballistic report itself contradicts the prosecution’s weapon theory, no amount of eyewitness testimony fixes that.
Case details
| Citation | [2008] 1 S.C.R. 491 |
| Case number | Criminal Appeal No. 437/2006 |
| Court | Indian Supreme Court |
| Decided | 2008 |
| Module | Failure Registry |
Read the full judgment (PDF), sourced from the Indian Supreme Court Judgments open dataset (AWS Open Data Registry, CC-BY-4.0).
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