The Allahabad High Court recently acquitted a man in connection with a nearly four-decade-old murder case as it opined that the prosecution had failed to establish its case beyond reasonable doubt. During the pendency of the criminal appeal, appellant no.1 (Harswarup), appellant no. The FIR alleged that they assaulted the deceased and the informant by opening fire with their country-made pistol, gun and by ballam (spear). The trial court in Mathura convicted the accused in 1986 and sentencing them to life imprisonment. 6, all relatives of the deceased, in not touching or removing the body, which the court said, rendered their presence at the scene 'highly doubtful'.