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The Calcutta High Court observed that while the ordinary rule is to prioritise eyewitness testimony in criminal trials, medical evidence would be given more weight if it completely rules out the eyewitness' version.
The Court noted that the State failed to provide material that the convict is beyond rehabilitation and reformation, which was a mitigating circumstance in favour of the convict.