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As per case facts, informant's brother, Brij Nandan Singh, went missing on January 17, 1991. Witnesses saw him drinking tari with appellants and later lying in Prayag Pasi's courtyard. Informant
...suspected murder by appellants and others due to previous enmity. The body was found in a well. The appeal challenges the conviction and life sentence for murder and concealment of body. The question arose whether the impugned judgment suffered from any error of law requiring interference. Finally, the Court found glaring infirmities in prosecution evidence, noting that "last seen" witnesses (P.W.-1, P.W.-3, P.W.-4) failed to promptly inform the informant or police, and their claims of seeing the incident from a distance in the dark and then going to sleep without taking action were unbelievable. No incriminating evidence or enmity was proven, and the post-mortem report did not corroborate the alleged method of strangulation. The trial court's appreciation of evidence was flawed. The appeal is allowed, and the judgment is set aside.
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