Jun 21, 2025 01:03 AM IST

The bench underlined that appellate interference is unwarranted if the findings of the courts beneath are moderately attainable and supported by the proof.

The Supreme Court has asserted that appellate courts ought to intervene with an order of acquittal solely in uncommon situations the place the earlier court docket’s view is “perverse” or the place the proof on file can solely result in the inescapable conclusion of guilt.

The bench underlined that appellate interference is unwarranted if the findings of the courts beneath are moderately attainable and supported by the proof. (Hindustan Times)

“Law is effectively settled that interference in an attraction in opposition to acquittal needs to be made provided that the view taken by the court docket/s beneath is perverse or if no two views are attainable and the one logical conclusion from the proof is to file the guilt of the accused,” a bench of justices Sandeep Mehta and PB Varale held in a judgment launched on Friday.

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Dismissing a petition that had challenged the acquittal of 5 individuals accused in a dowry loss of life case, the bench underlined that appellate interference is unwarranted if the findings of the courts beneath are moderately attainable and supported by the proof. The court docket’s observations got here whereas rejecting the attraction filed by a person difficult the acquittal of his sister’s husband and in-laws, who had been accused of murdering her over dowry calls for.

By its judgment in October 2024, the Allahabad excessive court docket had upheld the trial court docket’s 2014 choice acquitting the petitioner’s brother-in-law, Ajit Singh, and 4 members of his household in reference to the loss of life of the petitioner’s sister, Suchita Singh, who died by suicide at her matrimonial dwelling in Ghaziabad in October 2010 — lower than two years after her marriage ceremony.

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The petitioner, represented by senior advocate Sonia Mathur, alleged that his sister was subjected to harassment for dowry, and that her loss of life was a results of sustained abuse. However, the Supreme Court discovered no benefit in reopening the case, observing that each the trial court docket and the excessive court docket had given detailed causes for acquitting the accused and that the findings didn’t undergo from any authorized infirmity.

Citing the details on file, the highest court docket famous that Ajit Singh, the husband of the deceased, had promptly knowledgeable the girl’s maternal household after the incident. The inquest proceedings and cremation had been performed within the presence of the deceased’s father, who was a serving deputy superintendent of police. Yet, no suspicion or objection was raised on the time of the inquest, the court docket identified.

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The FIR within the case was lodged 4 days after the loss of life, which, in response to the trial court docket, solid severe doubt on the genuineness of the allegations. The Supreme Court quoted from the decrease court docket’s findings that the delay indicated “the story set out within the report was nothing however an afterthought.”

“We have fastidiously gone by the file and are of the opinion that the concurrent findings recorded by the courts beneath in acquitting the respondents don’t undergo from any infirmity or perversity,” the highest court docket held, refusing to grant any indulgence within the type of a retrial or reversal of acquittal.