https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186754 Circumstantial evidence may sustain convictions for murder and robbery where the accused are found in recent and exclusive possession of the deceased's belongings soon after a homicidal death, and no plausible explanation is offered for that possession. In such circumstances, the presumptions under Section 106 and Illustration (a) to Section 114 of the Indian Evidence Act may be applied to complete the chain of proof. On the facts noted, the concurrent findings that the death was homicidal and that the accused committed robbery and murder were not shown to be perverse, and the sentence was treated as neither excessive nor disproportionate. en-us Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:11:28 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186754 Circumstantial evidence may sustain convictions for murder and robbery where the accused are found in recent and exclusive possession of the deceased's belongings soon after a homicidal death, and no plausible explanation is offered for that possession. In such circumstances, the presumptions under Section 106 and Illustration (a) to Section 114 of the Indian Evidence Act may be applied to complete the chain of proof. On the facts noted, the concurrent findings that the death was homicidal and that the accused committed robbery and murder were not shown to be perverse, and the sentence was treated as neither excessive nor disproportionate. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186754