Penal Code, 1860–Secs. 302, 436, 447–Arms Act, 1959–Sec. 3/27–Conviction–Sustainability–Case of direct evidence–Analysis of oral evidence shows that the presence of three eye-witnesses is not corroborated by the fact of heaps of palla which they had scarped and they had kept it in bundles–They were inimical and interested witnesses–PW 4 made drastic improvements in his statements, recorded in the Court–Witness is clever enough to make improvements on points which he thought material and that is very fatal for the prosecution, particularly in a murder case–Enmity between the parties–It may also be a motive for false implication–Entire investigation was tainted and the case presented was the collective mischief of the informant and his two sons–Conviction cannot be sustained.
