https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=464092 Confessional statements recorded after prolonged police custody and later retracted were treated as unsafe where complaints, oral evidence and medical material suggested custodial torture, and where the statements lacked essential details and showed internal uniformity across accused. The discussion also notes that destruction or non-production of call detail records can justify an adverse inference when those records were relevant to testing alleged contacts, meetings and movements. On the remaining evidence, the court found the eyewitness and recovery material insufficient to complete the chain of circumstances beyond reasonable doubt, so the conviction and death references could not be sustained. en-us Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:26:14 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=464092 Confessional statements recorded after prolonged police custody and later retracted were treated as unsafe where complaints, oral evidence and medical material suggested custodial torture, and where the statements lacked essential details and showed internal uniformity across accused. The discussion also notes that destruction or non-production of call detail records can justify an adverse inference when those records were relevant to testing alleged contacts, meetings and movements. On the remaining evidence, the court found the eyewitness and recovery material insufficient to complete the chain of circumstances beyond reasonable doubt, so the conviction and death references could not be sustained. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=464092