https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311147 Circumstantial evidence sustained the conviction where the accused was last seen with the victim, eyewitness and medical evidence supported that she was taken away and soon found injured, and the accused gave no reasonable explanation for facts specially within his knowledge; DNA evidence further corroborated his link to the . The chain of circumstances was held complete and inconsistent with innocence, so guilt was maintained beyond reasonable doubt. On sentence, the Court applied the rarest of rare doctrine and related capital sentencing principles, found death unwarranted, and commuted it to life imprisonment, while modifying the sexual offence sentence to twenty years and affirming the remaining convictions and sentences. en-us Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:34:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311147 Circumstantial evidence sustained the conviction where the accused was last seen with the victim, eyewitness and medical evidence supported that she was taken away and soon found injured, and the accused gave no reasonable explanation for facts specially within his knowledge; DNA evidence further corroborated his link to the . The chain of circumstances was held complete and inconsistent with innocence, so guilt was maintained beyond reasonable doubt. On sentence, the Court applied the rarest of rare doctrine and related capital sentencing principles, found death unwarranted, and commuted it to life imprisonment, while modifying the sexual offence sentence to twenty years and affirming the remaining convictions and sentences. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311147