https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=177351 Conviction for kidnapping and murder based on circumstantial evidence, a retracted Section 164 confession, and an alleged extra-judicial confession could not be sustained. The last-seen circumstance, recovery of the deceased's silver chain, alleged abscondence, and recovery of the body connected only the co-accused, not the appellant. The extra-judicial confession was rejected as unreliable because the witnesses did not clearly prove they heard any confession and no contemporaneous scene-recreation record was produced. The retracted confession required corroboration, but no independent circumstance supported it and it conflicted with medical evidence showing death by head injury, not strangulation. en-us Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:19:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=177351 Conviction for kidnapping and murder based on circumstantial evidence, a retracted Section 164 confession, and an alleged extra-judicial confession could not be sustained. The last-seen circumstance, recovery of the deceased's silver chain, alleged abscondence, and recovery of the body connected only the co-accused, not the appellant. The extra-judicial confession was rejected as unreliable because the witnesses did not clearly prove they heard any confession and no contemporaneous scene-recreation record was produced. The retracted confession required corroboration, but no independent circumstance supported it and it conflicted with medical evidence showing death by head injury, not strangulation. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=177351