https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288304 Confessional statements recorded without compliance with mandatory magistrate safeguards were held unsafe to rely on, where the statements were not personally recorded, the memorandum was defective, and surrounding circumstances cast doubt on voluntariness. The confessions were excluded. Once excluded, the murder conviction under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC could not be sustained for lack of independent proof. The conviction under Section 201 IPC was sustained only against the accused against whom recovery of the dead body and attendant circumstances independently established disappearance of evidence, and was set aside for the other accused where the remaining material was insufficient. en-us Tue, 28 Aug 1962 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 30 May 2020 18:08:49 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288304 Confessional statements recorded without compliance with mandatory magistrate safeguards were held unsafe to rely on, where the statements were not personally recorded, the memorandum was defective, and surrounding circumstances cast doubt on voluntariness. The confessions were excluded. Once excluded, the murder conviction under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC could not be sustained for lack of independent proof. The conviction under Section 201 IPC was sustained only against the accused against whom recovery of the dead body and attendant circumstances independently established disappearance of evidence, and was set aside for the other accused where the remaining material was insufficient. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 28 Aug 1962 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288304