https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=465109 Reliable eyewitness testimony, injured witness accounts, a dying declaration, prompt reporting, medical corroboration, and supporting ballistic and recovery evidence were treated as sufficient to sustain murder convictions where the witnesses were familiar with the accused and lantern light was held adequate in the factual setting. For one accused, the link between the weapon and his possession at the relevant time was not proved beyond reasonable doubt, so he received the benefit of doubt. On sentencing, the rarest-of-rare principle required death to be confined to cases where life imprisonment was wholly inadequate; the multiple, brutal killings of helpless victims, including women and children, were held to justify confirmation of the death sentence for the appellants found guilty. en-us Wed, 20 Jul 1983 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 12 May 2026 12:40:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=465109 Reliable eyewitness testimony, injured witness accounts, a dying declaration, prompt reporting, medical corroboration, and supporting ballistic and recovery evidence were treated as sufficient to sustain murder convictions where the witnesses were familiar with the accused and lantern light was held adequate in the factual setting. For one accused, the link between the weapon and his possession at the relevant time was not proved beyond reasonable doubt, so he received the benefit of doubt. On sentencing, the rarest-of-rare principle required death to be confined to cases where life imprisonment was wholly inadequate; the multiple, brutal killings of helpless victims, including women and children, were held to justify confirmation of the death sentence for the appellants found guilty. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 20 Jul 1983 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=465109