Supreme Court acquits four in 1989 murder case; says case might have been set up by police to cover up their own crime

The Court said that the police might have accidentally killed the deceased while trying to arrest him and in order to cover up the same, fabricated the case against the accused.
Justice BR Gavai,  Justice Vikram Nath and  Justice Sanjay Karol
Justice BR Gavai, Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sanjay Karol
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The Supreme Court on March 28 acquitted four men convicted in a 1989 murder case, after finding that the evidence against them was unreliable and the entire prosecution case could have been fabricated by the Police [Pulen Phukan and Others v. State of Assam].

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