https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184413 In a conviction based on circumstantial evidence, the prosecution must establish a complete and reliable chain of circumstances, including a credible last seen link and trustworthy recovery evidence, so that every reasonable hypothesis other than guilt is excluded. Here, the last seen evidence was doubtful because the witnesses could not clearly identify the accompanying person and did not know the deceased personally; the time gap between the alleged last sighting and the recovery of the body was also not sufficiently narrow. The recovery material was found unreliable and the extra-judicial confession lacked credibility. The prosecution therefore failed to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt, and the conviction was not sustained. en-us Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 07 Jul 2016 18:44:35 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184413 In a conviction based on circumstantial evidence, the prosecution must establish a complete and reliable chain of circumstances, including a credible last seen link and trustworthy recovery evidence, so that every reasonable hypothesis other than guilt is excluded. Here, the last seen evidence was doubtful because the witnesses could not clearly identify the accompanying person and did not know the deceased personally; the time gap between the alleged last sighting and the recovery of the body was also not sufficiently narrow. The recovery material was found unreliable and the extra-judicial confession lacked credibility. The prosecution therefore failed to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt, and the conviction was not sustained. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184413