The Allahabad High Court acquitted Raees after 23 years in a family murder case, calling it a “sad commentary on our criminal justice delivery system.” Justices Siddharth and Jai Krishna Upadhyay urged more judges, staff, and infrastructure to tackle criminal appeal delays.
The Supreme Court of India restored acquittal in a 15-year-old murder case after finding the sole eyewitness to be planted and unreliable. The Court held that the prosecution failed to complete the chain of circumstances and wrongly overturned a plausible trial court acquittal.
