https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184101 Circumstantial evidence and corroborated approver testimony were treated as sufficient to sustain convictions for murder, conspiracy and disappearance of evidence, because the chain of circumstances and independent corroboration excluded reasonable hypotheses of innocence. The challenge based on Section 306 CrPC failed after the initial omission to examine the approver before the committing Magistrate was cured on remand, with no shown prejudice. On sentence, the death penalty was upheld for the principal accused in a rarest of rare murder of his wife and children, but the co-accuseds' capital sentences were commuted to life imprisonment because their role was limited to conspiracy and assistance. en-us Wed, 13 Jul 1994 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 19 May 2017 16:14:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184101 Circumstantial evidence and corroborated approver testimony were treated as sufficient to sustain convictions for murder, conspiracy and disappearance of evidence, because the chain of circumstances and independent corroboration excluded reasonable hypotheses of innocence. The challenge based on Section 306 CrPC failed after the initial omission to examine the approver before the committing Magistrate was cured on remand, with no shown prejudice. On sentence, the death penalty was upheld for the principal accused in a rarest of rare murder of his wife and children, but the co-accuseds' capital sentences were commuted to life imprisonment because their role was limited to conspiracy and assistance. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 13 Jul 1994 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184101