https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311414 Circumstantial evidence, including last seen evidence, recoveries, ransom calls and call detail records, was treated as sufficient to sustain convictions for kidnapping for ransom, murder and conspiracy where the chain of circumstances was complete and the accused failed to explain facts especially within their knowledge under Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Kidnapping of a child for ransom was treated as inherently involving the threat contemplated by Section 364A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. On sentencing, aggravating and mitigating factors were weighed, and the case was found not to meet the rarest of rare standard, so death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment without remission for 25 years. en-us Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 25 Dec 2023 09:26:18 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311414 Circumstantial evidence, including last seen evidence, recoveries, ransom calls and call detail records, was treated as sufficient to sustain convictions for kidnapping for ransom, murder and conspiracy where the chain of circumstances was complete and the accused failed to explain facts especially within their knowledge under Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Kidnapping of a child for ransom was treated as inherently involving the threat contemplated by Section 364A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. On sentencing, aggravating and mitigating factors were weighed, and the case was found not to meet the rarest of rare standard, so death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment without remission for 25 years. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311414