Crl.A. No. 000438 / 2016

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A High Court exercising appellate jurisdiction over an order of acquittal cannot substitute its own view for that of the trial court merely because another view is plausible; interference is warranted only when the trial court's findings are perverse or demonstrably unsustainable. As analysed on casestatus.in, where two reasonable views of the evidence are possible, the one favouring the accused and adopted by the trial court must prevail. Reversing an acquittal without recording that the trial court's view was implausible constitutes a manifest error of law.