KUNWAR BAHADUR SINGH vs SHEO BARAN SINGH . — Crl.A. No. 1078 - 1082/2000

Summary The Supreme Court set aside the High Court's acquittal and remanded the case for merit-based hearing. The trial court had convicted multiple accused in a 1982 dacoity case, but the High Court rejected the reconstructed trial records (original records had gone missing) and acquitted all accused without considering merits. The Supreme Court held that the reconstructed records were properly authenticated through witness verification and were reliable, finding that mere suspicion about documentary authenticity cannot override a properly verified reconstruction. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.