Alamgir Sk & Anr. v. State of West Bengal
Criminal appeal – murder (S.302/34 IPC) and Arms Act (Ss.25 & 27) convictions
Case brief
What is this about?
CRA 417 of 2018, High Court at Calcutta (Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction), decided 17 November 2025; authored by Rajasekhar Mantha, J., Rai Chattopadhyay, J. concurring. Search themes: acquittal on benefit of doubt in double-murder-trial conviction; failure to prove identity of assailants; anomalous FIR/inquest/post-mortem timings and unproduced first piece of information; absent UD case; unreliable and silent eyewitness; identification by vague height description; interested, tutored and stock witnesses who were co-accused in the murder of the appellants' brother Biltu; S.155 Indian Evidence Act, 1872 impeachment of witness credibility; defective arms recovery (pipe-gun measurement mismatch, unlabeled seizure); untraced ownership of motorcycle; retracted purse-snatching motive and uninvestigated hardware-business creditor theory; S.313 CrPC plea of false implication; delayed S.164 CrPC statement; sanction under S.39 Arms Act, 1959; release bond under S.437A CrPC / S.481 BNSS 2023; no precedent cited in judgment.