PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court has acquitted a murder accused who was awarded death penalty by a trial court, saying that "though motive and abscondence may give rise to strong suspicion, merely on the basis of these two circumstances, an accused cannot be held guilty".
While allowing an appeal filed by one Ram Pratap alias Tillu of Etawah district, a division bench comprising Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Sameer Jain set aside the trial court judgment on the ground that the case was based on circumstantial evidence and the chain of circumstances pointing to the guilt of the appellant could not be completed.
