SUPREME COURT LAYS DOWN GUIDELINES FOR DNA EVIDENCE HANDLING, ACQUITS DEATH ROW CONVICT IN SENSATIONAL DOUBLE MURDER CASE

In a landmark judgment delivered on July 15, 2025, in Kattavellai @ Devakar v. State of Tamil Nadu (Criminal Appeal No. 1672 of 2019), the Supreme Court of India acquitted a man on death row, overturning his…