The Bombay High Court recently set aside the 2017 conviction of a man for the murder of a widow in 2011, stating that there was a doubt if it was a homicide, but directed district legal services authority to decide on compensation to her four minor daughters.

The HC invoked provisions of section 357 (A) of the Criminal Procedure Code and a salutary victim compensation scheme of 2014 and directed the state to compensate the children. But it clarified that it was not laying down any law on making a recommendation in every case of acquittal, stated a report in The Times of India.