The Supreme Court on Monday (November 17) acquitted a man accused of murdering an elderly man during a robbery. The Court discarded the sole eyewitness's identification of the accused, made nearly eight years after the incident, noting that it could not inspire confidence because of her weak eyesight and subsequent improvements in testimony.

“Once her identification of the accused-appellant in Court is discarded, no substantive evidence remains on record to connect the accused with the crime.” , observed a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, pointing out that the dock identification was unreliable as it was undertaken years after the incident, having substantial improvements and material contradictions in the eyewitness's testimony.

“We may note that the possibility of id

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