As regards the recovery of the clothes from A 2, who is said to have assaulted the deceased with an axe, the story appears to us to be wholly improbable because when A 2 appeared before the police as an innocent person, he would number have done so after wearing blood stained clothes so as to entangle himself in a murder case, especially when he had sufficient time at his disposal to destroy these clothes or the stains of blood on them It was number a case of an accused who had companymitted offence under some emotional strain and, having been repentant, appeared at the Police Station to plead his guilt.
The State then filed an appeal before the Karnataka High Court which allowed the same in respect of accused Nos.
After the investigation a charge sheet was submitted against eight persons who were all acquitted by the Sessions Judge after a trial.
The Sessions Judge, after recording the evidence and hearing the arguments, gave a very detailed judgment in which he found that the prosecution case against the accused had number been proved and that an attempt was made by the eye witnesses to falsely implicate as many as four persons due to enmity.
The defence of the accused was that all the accused persons were falsely implicated due to serious animus which they bore against the deceased and the prosecution witnesses.
2 to 7, and 2 the recovery of various articles stained with human blood at the instance of the appellants.
1, 2, 3 and 7 and companyvicted them as indicated above.
