https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196054 Credible ocular testimony from natural and injured witnesses can sustain conviction for participation in a mass massacre even where only a solitary or a few eyewitnesses support the prosecution, and minor discrepancies, delayed statements, non-recovery of articles, or omissions in related evidence do not discredit otherwise reliable accounts. Applying the rarest of rare doctrine, the Court reiterated that death is the exception and requires a balance of aggravating and mitigating factors, but confirmed the capital sentence where a militant unlawful assembly planned and executed a brutally targeted communal massacre, using firearms, bombs and sharp weapons, burning homes and killing 35 persons in a manner that shocked the collective conscience. en-us Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:09:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196054 Credible ocular testimony from natural and injured witnesses can sustain conviction for participation in a mass massacre even where only a solitary or a few eyewitnesses support the prosecution, and minor discrepancies, delayed statements, non-recovery of articles, or omissions in related evidence do not discredit otherwise reliable accounts. Applying the rarest of rare doctrine, the Court reiterated that death is the exception and requires a balance of aggravating and mitigating factors, but confirmed the capital sentence where a militant unlawful assembly planned and executed a brutally targeted communal massacre, using firearms, bombs and sharp weapons, burning homes and killing 35 persons in a manner that shocked the collective conscience. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196054