https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180081 A confession recorded by a Magistrate was held unsafe to rely on where the surrounding circumstances suggested possible police pressure or inducement, including prior allegations of ill-treatment and continued police-influenced custody during the reflection period; it was therefore treated as involuntary and ignored. The circumstantial evidence was also found insufficient, because it did not form a complete chain excluding reasonable doubt: the alleged warning to the deceased was improbable, the recoveries were not reliably connected to the accused, the blood evidence was inconclusive, and ownership of the ornaments was not proved with certainty. The ratio stated that circumstantial proof must be complete and reliable, and only voluntary confessions may be used. en-us Mon, 29 Jan 1951 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:30:48 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180081 A confession recorded by a Magistrate was held unsafe to rely on where the surrounding circumstances suggested possible police pressure or inducement, including prior allegations of ill-treatment and continued police-influenced custody during the reflection period; it was therefore treated as involuntary and ignored. The circumstantial evidence was also found insufficient, because it did not form a complete chain excluding reasonable doubt: the alleged warning to the deceased was improbable, the recoveries were not reliably connected to the accused, the blood evidence was inconclusive, and ownership of the ornaments was not proved with certainty. The ratio stated that circumstantial proof must be complete and reliable, and only voluntary confessions may be used. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 29 Jan 1951 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=180081