New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has acquitted two men who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, holding that the prosecution’s case rested on an unreliable sole eyewitness whose testimony suffered from material inconsistencies and did not inspire confidence. A Division Bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Madhu Jain allowed the appeals filed by Virender alias Bablu and Vikas alias Tinku against their conviction by a Rohini court, which had sentenced them to lif…
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New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has acquitted three men who had been sentenced to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment for gang-rape, holding that the testimony of the prosecutrix was inconsistent on material aspects and the prosecution had failed to prove the charge beyond reasonable doubt. A single-judge Bench of Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha allowed the appeals filed by Anwar, Sandeep and Anish Kumar against a 2017 order of the trial court which had convicted them under Section 376…