BENGALURU: When the prosecution’s theory in totality gives scope for genuine doubts, the benefit should be extended only to the accused, the Kalaburagi bench of the high court observed while coming to the rescue of a man convicted of killing his wife.
“This court thinks that even though the prosecution examined several witnesses and marked several documents, there is no positive, corroborative and cogent evidence to probabalise beyond reasonable doubt that the accused has eliminated his wife Sridevi,” a division bench headed by justice K Somashekar observed while acquitting Gangappa, a resident of Neermanvi village in Manvi taluk of Raichur district. Gangappa had spent over eight years in jail.
