Part of the Forensic Docket on Legal Desire Forensics — a case where forensic or identification evidence broke down on appeal.
The facts
The trial court had acquitted the accused after finding the eyewitnesses unreliable and the ballistic expert’s report contrary to their account.
The State’s appeal against the acquittal was dismissed; the Court found no infirmity in the High Court’s judgment.
Why this belongs in the Forensic Docket: A ballistic report that contradicts the eyewitnesses is treated as a real evidentiary problem, not a technicality to be argued around.
Case details
| Citation | [2009] 7 S.C.R. 80 |
| Case number | Criminal Appeal No. 962/2005 |
| Court | Indian Supreme Court |
| Decided | 2009 |
| 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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