https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=185789 An extra-judicial confession can sustain a conviction only if it is voluntary, clear, specific, unambiguous, and made to unbiased and credible witnesses; where the words, place, and surrounding circumstances are inconsistent, reliance becomes unsafe. The article further states that a conviction cannot be supported on an incriminating circumstance not put to the accused under Section 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, because the accused must have a fair opportunity to explain every material circumstance. Applying those principles, the alleged confession and the kerosene-on-clothes circumstance were treated as unreliable or unusable, and the prosecution was said to have failed to prove the charge beyond reasonable doubt. en-us Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:02:51 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=185789 An extra-judicial confession can sustain a conviction only if it is voluntary, clear, specific, unambiguous, and made to unbiased and credible witnesses; where the words, place, and surrounding circumstances are inconsistent, reliance becomes unsafe. The article further states that a conviction cannot be supported on an incriminating circumstance not put to the accused under Section 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, because the accused must have a fair opportunity to explain every material circumstance. Applying those principles, the alleged confession and the kerosene-on-clothes circumstance were treated as unreliable or unusable, and the prosecution was said to have failed to prove the charge beyond reasonable doubt. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=185789