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Supreme Court: What should be approach of appellate court while deciding appeal against acquittal?

Since the impugned judgment is one of reversal of acquittal, the broad principles to be borne in mind by an appellate Court when it considers an appeal from an order of acquittal are required to be ...
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Supreme Court: Whether appellate court must hear accused on the point of sentence while convicting him after setting aside order of his acquittal?

16. The appellate court which will include the High Court, in a given scenario, while recording a conviction after reversing the acquittal, should adjourn the matter to a suitable date, hear the ...
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Supreme Court: Victim Also Has Right To Seek Speedy Trial Like Accused

Sharma v. State of Bihar (1998) 7 SCC 507].” SCC 462, where it has been held that the scheme in the Cr.P.C. 27. The Criminal Appeal is, accordingly, allowed.
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Investigating Officer Must Not Create Evidence' : Supreme Court Upholds Acquittal After Finding Witnesses Were 'Set Up'

53. In our view, CDRs of the two mobiles with corresponding tower locations would have been critical in revealing: PW-4 and PW-18, the prosecution case appears contrived. a Hotel in Chamba, is neither ...
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Supreme Court: Under which circumstances Non-collection of tower location of the two mobiles is a serious investigational lapse?

53. In our view, CDRs of the two mobiles with corresponding tower locations would have been critical in revealing: ...