Prayagraj, Feb. 5 -- The Allahabad high court recently acquitted a man, aged around 100 years, 42 years after his conviction in a 1982 murder case, ruling that the prosecution failed to prove the charges beyond reasonable doubt. Ram was convicted in the case in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district on July 24, 1984, and he filed an appeal before the high court the same year. The bench comprising justices Chandra Dhari Singh and Sanjiv Kumar allowed Ram's appeal and further pointed out that the anxiety, uncertainty and social consequences suffered by the accused over decades cannot be ignored while assessing what justice now demands. "When a person stands before the court at the twilight of existence, the insistence on penal consequences, after ...