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What the prosecution record showed
In Sajal Bose v. State of West Bengal & Ors., 2026 INSC 322, with connected appeals, the Supreme Court quashed charge-sheet proceedings against three appellants arising from an apartment-complex dispute involving alleged assault and related IPC offences. CCTV footage already forming part of the prosecution record contradicted their claimed involvement.
The Court treated the material as reliable and effectively unanswered, and examined the High Court's differing treatment of co-accused. It quashed the identified charge-sheet proceedings insofar as they concerned the three appellants.
The limit of the principle
The judgment illustrates an exceptional situation where material of sufficiently assured quality undermines the factual foundation of a prosecution. It does not authorise routine credibility findings at the quashing stage or make every competing video a ground for ending a case.
For a Telangana High Court quash petition, the source, authenticity and position of any electronic material in the prosecution record matter. This judgment arose from legacy proceedings; its relevance to inherent-power principles should not be described as a new statutory evidentiary rule under Section 528 BNSS.