The High Court of Chhattisgarh has acquitted an appellant previously convicted under the POCSO Act and sentenced to life imprisonment, citing a “vitiated” identification process and a fractured chain of circumstantial evidence. The Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru, set aside the conviction, emphasizing that while the occurrence of
Even in Sensitive Offences, Benefit of Doubt Must Follow if Identification Process is Vitiated and Scientific Corroboration Absent: Chhattisgarh HC
