https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169262 In a prosecution resting wholly on circumstantial evidence, conviction requires each incriminating circumstance to be firmly proved and the chain to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence; here the motive evidence was weak and the alleged links to murder and conspiracy were too slender to sustain guilt, so the prosecution case failed. A retracted confession cannot be the foundation of conviction unless independent evidence is already sufficient and the confession is shown to be voluntary and trustworthy; here its voluntariness and recording safeguards were doubtful, so it was unsafe to rely on. The alleged ransom note and surrounding circumstances were also found unconvincing and incapable of providing reliable corroboration, leading to acquittal. en-us Thu, 12 Dec 1991 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:16:56 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169262 In a prosecution resting wholly on circumstantial evidence, conviction requires each incriminating circumstance to be firmly proved and the chain to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence; here the motive evidence was weak and the alleged links to murder and conspiracy were too slender to sustain guilt, so the prosecution case failed. A retracted confession cannot be the foundation of conviction unless independent evidence is already sufficient and the confession is shown to be voluntary and trustworthy; here its voluntariness and recording safeguards were doubtful, so it was unsafe to rely on. The alleged ransom note and surrounding circumstances were also found unconvincing and incapable of providing reliable corroboration, leading to acquittal. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 12 Dec 1991 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169262