Dying Declaration Discarded as Intended to Wreak Vengeance; Husband and In-Laws Acquitted in Murder Case: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has acquitted five members of a family who had earlier been sentenced to life imprisonment in a 2017 murder and dowry death case. The Division Bench of Justice Ajay Bhanot and Justice Divesh Chandra Samant held that the prosecution failed to prove the charges beyond reasonable doubt and observed that the dying declaration relied upon by the trial court appeared to have been made more to…
