https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=179436 Circumstantial evidence can sustain liability for murder, robbery and related offences when the proved facts form a complete chain consistent only with guilt and inconsistent with innocence. The text emphasises reliance on special knowledge, last-seen conduct, suspicious movements, assumed identities and recovery of stolen property, while treating newspaper reports as inadmissible hearsay. It also notes that where the killing does not clearly show premeditation and no specially brought weapon is proved, the sentencing court may view the matter as fit for lesser punishment and commute death to life imprisonment. en-us Tue, 26 Apr 1988 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:34:38 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=179436 Circumstantial evidence can sustain liability for murder, robbery and related offences when the proved facts form a complete chain consistent only with guilt and inconsistent with innocence. The text emphasises reliance on special knowledge, last-seen conduct, suspicious movements, assumed identities and recovery of stolen property, while treating newspaper reports as inadmissible hearsay. It also notes that where the killing does not clearly show premeditation and no specially brought weapon is proved, the sentencing court may view the matter as fit for lesser punishment and commute death to life imprisonment. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 26 Apr 1988 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=179436