Fleeing After Friend's Drowning, Though Reprehensible, Not Per Se Indicative of Murder: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that merely fleeing from the spot after witnessing a friend drown and failing to immediately inform the deceased’s family cannot, by itself, be treated as an incriminating circumstance sufficient to establish a charge of murder. A Bench comprising Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice K. Vinod Chandran acquitted Taher Vajiyuddin Rangwala and another, holding that the prosecution failed to establish that the death was homicidal rather…