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The Allahabad High Court has acquitted a woman sentenced to death for allegedly drowning her three children, citing that the conviction was based on a tutored and contradictory child witness, as well as investigative errors. The bench of Justices Siddhartha Varma and Jai Krishna Upadhyay ruled that the child's testimony was unreliable and swayed by external influences, rendering it unfit to form the sole basis of the conviction.
The court also acquitted the co-accused, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment. The children's bodies were discovered in a river on June 27, 2024, and the prosecution alleged that the mother had taken her four sons to the river, intending to drown them. However, the eldest child, around eight years old at the time, survived by pretending to be dead and later informed the authorities about the incident.
The high court emphasized the need for caution when considering the testimony of a child witness, as they can be easily influenced by relatives, police officers, or village elders.
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