Dashwanth v State of TN: How a Death Sentence Became an Acquittal

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0530

On October 8, 2025, the Supreme Court of India did something rare. It acquitted a man who had been on death row for nearly eight years. The man was Dashwanth. The child was Hasini. The Supreme Court did not say the crime did not happen. The court said the prosecution had - and I'm using the court's words - miserably failed to prove who did it. This is the story of three courtrooms and one man at the centre of all three. Trial, appeal, acquittal. The evidence the police built, the evidence the court demolished, and the system that built them. I'm Asha, and this is CaseTurn. The verdict is the verdict. The system is the system. We just read the file.