Merely Exhorting Co-Accused Not Sufficient to Sustain Murder Conviction, Life Convict Acquitted After 42 Years: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has acquitted a man who had been serving a life sentence for murder for over four decades. The bench comprising Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh and Justice Madan Pal Singh observed that general exhortation alone is a weak piece of evidence. Unless the prosecution can establish a “meeting of minds” or common intention leading the co-accused to commit the murder, the accused cannot be convicted under Section…