https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274548 A retracted confession may sustain conviction when it is voluntary and substantially corroborated by independent circumstances; it need not be proved in every detail. The Court treated the High Court's doubts about voluntariness and identification as unsupported by the record and accepted the test identification evidence as reliable. Applying these principles, it held that the prosecution had proved the corpus delicti through recovery and surrounding circumstances, and had established murder, conspiracy, cheating, kidnapping, robbery and forgery against Boota Singh. The evidence was, however, not considered sufficiently safe to convict Raghubir Singh, whose acquittal was confirmed. en-us Tue, 22 Aug 1978 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:15:18 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274548 A retracted confession may sustain conviction when it is voluntary and substantially corroborated by independent circumstances; it need not be proved in every detail. The Court treated the High Court's doubts about voluntariness and identification as unsupported by the record and accepted the test identification evidence as reliable. Applying these principles, it held that the prosecution had proved the corpus delicti through recovery and surrounding circumstances, and had established murder, conspiracy, cheating, kidnapping, robbery and forgery against Boota Singh. The evidence was, however, not considered sufficiently safe to convict Raghubir Singh, whose acquittal was confirmed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 22 Aug 1978 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274548