Sikkim child rape-murder case: the Supreme Court acquitted a man serving life imprisonment, holding that the last-seen evidence was doubtful, the recovery was from an open spot and the DNA report showed the recovered bones were of male origin.
The Supreme Court, in a landmark judgment acquitting Surendra Koli in the Nithari serial killings, ruled that Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act ceases to operate when the disclosure statement is not contemporaneously proved or prior knowledge exists.
