[PER : SHYAM C. CHANDAK, J.]
“A criminal trial is not like a fairy tale wherein one is
free to give flight to one’s imagination and phantasy. It
concerns itself with the question as to whether the
accused arraigned at the trial is guilty of the crime
with which he is charged. Crime is an event in real life
and is the product of interplay of different human
emotions. In arriving at the conclusion about the guilt
of the accused charged with the commission of a
crime, the court has to judge the evidence by the
yardstick of probabilities, its intrinsic worth and the
animus of witnesses. Every case in the final analysis
would have to depend upon its own facts. Although
the benefit of every reasonable doubt should be given
to the accused, the courts should not at the same time
reject evidence which is ex facie trustworthy on
grounds which are fanciful or in the nature of
conjectures.”
