India, July 31 -- Minor inconsistencies in the testimony of eyewitnesses to a murder are an indicator of truthful evidence rather than a doubtful one, the Bombay High Court has observed while upholding the life sentence of a man convicted of stalking and murdering a woman in Palghar in 2015.

Dismissing the appeal filed by convict Ramnayan Vishwakarma, a division bench of justices A S Gadkari and R R Bhosale held that minor discrepancies in the accounts of eyewitnesses who witnessed a brutal murder in broad daylight could not undermine an otherwise reliable prosecution case.

"One must at all times remember that, evidence of natural and genuine eye witnesses in murder trials is bound to have certain discrepancies considering the fact that...