https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302913 Circumstantial evidence can sustain convictions for house trespass, robbery and murder where the deaths are homicidal and the chain of incriminating facts is complete. The Court relied on motive, access to the house, prompt recovery of stolen ornaments and other articles, bloodstained articles, injuries on the accused, and distribution of looted property to infer participation in the offences; the convictions were upheld. On sentence, the Court held that although the murders were brutal, the case did not fall within the rarest of rare category, so the death penalty was not justified and was commuted to life imprisonment. en-us Fri, 02 May 1997 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:49:21 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302913 Circumstantial evidence can sustain convictions for house trespass, robbery and murder where the deaths are homicidal and the chain of incriminating facts is complete. The Court relied on motive, access to the house, prompt recovery of stolen ornaments and other articles, bloodstained articles, injuries on the accused, and distribution of looted property to infer participation in the offences; the convictions were upheld. On sentence, the Court held that although the murders were brutal, the case did not fall within the rarest of rare category, so the death penalty was not justified and was commuted to life imprisonment. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 02 May 1997 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=302913