Law Does Not Require Eyewitnesses to Sign Inquest Report; Testimony Remains Unaffected Even if Their Names Are Absent from Police Papers: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has upheld the life imprisonment sentence awarded to Pravesh in a brutal murder case that took place in 1998. The Court ruled that the testimony of reliable eyewitnesses cannot be discarded merely because their signatures do not appear on the inquest report or other police documents. The judgment was delivered by a Division Bench comprising Justice Salil Kumar Rai and Justice Ajay Kumar-II. Background of the…
