https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169743 Circumstantial evidence was insufficient to sustain the murder and conspiracy convictions of the co-accused because the chain of participation and meeting of minds was not proved, so their convictions were set aside. The main accused's extra-judicial confession was accepted as voluntary and credible, but the retracted judicial confession of a co-accused could not, without strong independent corroboration in material particulars, sustain conviction. On sentencing, the Court held that the case did not meet the rarest of rare standard, so the death sentence was not justified and was commuted to life imprisonment. en-us Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:46:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169743 Circumstantial evidence was insufficient to sustain the murder and conspiracy convictions of the co-accused because the chain of participation and meeting of minds was not proved, so their convictions were set aside. The main accused's extra-judicial confession was accepted as voluntary and credible, but the retracted judicial confession of a co-accused could not, without strong independent corroboration in material particulars, sustain conviction. On sentencing, the Court held that the case did not meet the rarest of rare standard, so the death sentence was not justified and was commuted to life imprisonment. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169743