https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=368344 A voluntary extra-judicial confession may sustain conviction if it is true, reliable, and free from threat, inducement, or coercion; corroboration is desirable but not invariably required. On the facts, the handwritten confessional statements made before senior bank officers were found voluntary on the concurrent evidence, and the conviction was upheld. On sentence, the Court considered the long passage of time and the surrounding circumstances and reduced the imprisonment imposed for criminal breach of trust under the Penal Code to three years, while maintaining the other convictions. en-us Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:26:17 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=368344 A voluntary extra-judicial confession may sustain conviction if it is true, reliable, and free from threat, inducement, or coercion; corroboration is desirable but not invariably required. On the facts, the handwritten confessional statements made before senior bank officers were found voluntary on the concurrent evidence, and the conviction was upheld. On sentence, the Court considered the long passage of time and the surrounding circumstances and reduced the imprisonment imposed for criminal breach of trust under the Penal Code to three years, while maintaining the other convictions. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=368344