https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=290398 Circumstantial evidence, supported by DNA profiling and corroborating medical findings, was treated as sufficient to establish guilt for murder and rape where the chain of circumstances was complete and objections to sample custody and testing did not displace the scientific evidence. Omission to put some incriminating facts to the accused under Section 313 CrPC did not vitiate the conviction because no prejudice or miscarriage of justice was shown, and the accused had addressed the core case against him. On sentencing, the Court applied capital punishment principles, weighed aggravating and mitigating factors, and commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. en-us Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:23:05 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=290398 Circumstantial evidence, supported by DNA profiling and corroborating medical findings, was treated as sufficient to establish guilt for murder and rape where the chain of circumstances was complete and objections to sample custody and testing did not displace the scientific evidence. Omission to put some incriminating facts to the accused under Section 313 CrPC did not vitiate the conviction because no prejudice or miscarriage of justice was shown, and the accused had addressed the core case against him. On sentencing, the Court applied capital punishment principles, weighed aggravating and mitigating factors, and commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=290398