Supreme Court news: Flagging the danger of innocent persons being “crucified” by flawed prosecutions, the Supreme Court has acquitted 12 convicts in a 2008 Assam murder case, ruling that a “scripted enquiry”, delayed FIR and glaring investigative lapses had fatally vitiated the trial. A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K Vinod Chandran set aside the conviction of the accused, observing that the manner in which the investigation was conducted raised serious doubts about the credibility of the prosecution’s case. “An inept investigation or a scripted enquiry, both are fatal to criminal prosecution; but the latter has lethal consequences when there is a possibility of totally innocent persons being crucified,” the bench said on April 28. Justices Sanjay Kumar and K Vinod Chandran pronounced the order on April 28.…