https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278514 In a joint trial for conspiracy to wage war, conviction could stand only on reliable, corroborated evidence proving that each accused was a member of the single conspiracy charged. The HC treated the Section 121A allegation as one common conspiracy and held that accomplice evidence required material corroboration, particularly on the offence and identity of the accused. It found the principal approvers unreliable because of inconsistencies and improvements, and held retracted confessions unsafe as independent proof, capable only of lending assurance to other evidence. On the facts, the conspiracy was proved only against six accused; the remaining accused were acquitted. en-us Wed, 19 Apr 1911 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:19:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278514 In a joint trial for conspiracy to wage war, conviction could stand only on reliable, corroborated evidence proving that each accused was a member of the single conspiracy charged. The HC treated the Section 121A allegation as one common conspiracy and held that accomplice evidence required material corroboration, particularly on the offence and identity of the accused. It found the principal approvers unreliable because of inconsistencies and improvements, and held retracted confessions unsafe as independent proof, capable only of lending assurance to other evidence. On the facts, the conspiracy was proved only against six accused; the remaining accused were acquitted. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 19 Apr 1911 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278514