The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad has set aside the conviction of two men in a 34-year-old murder case, observing that the “last seen” theory is legally unsustainable when there is a significant time gap between the last sighting of the deceased with the accused and the discovery of the body. The Division Bench,
Lack of ‘Strict Proximity of Time’ in Last Seen Theory: Allahabad High Court Acquits Two in 1992 Murder Case
