Part of the Forensic Docket on Legal Desire Forensics — a conviction confirmed through final appeal, kept here as a method-of-crime record.
The facts
The victim was shot dead by a group of eight to ten persons; two of the accused were prosecuted and convicted.
The Supreme Court sustained the appellant’s conviction, finding the eyewitness testimony that multiple persons fired on the victim corroborated by the medical evidence.
Status: conviction upheld through final appeal.
Why this belongs in the Forensic Docket: In a group-attack shooting, the medical evidence’s job is to confirm the eyewitness account of multiple weapons and multiple assailants, not to identify any one shooter.
Case details
| Citation | [2012] 2 S.C.R. 546 |
| Case number | Criminal Appeal No. 550/2007 |
| Court | Indian Supreme Court |
| Decided | 2012 |
| Module | MO Archive |
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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