Kidnapping & Murder of Child - Doubts concerning Recovery of Skeletal Remains - Court grants Benefit of Doubt to Accused
Penal Code, 1860 - Ss. 363, 364A, 302, 201, 120B, 34 - Kidnapping & Murder - Ransom Calls - Investigation - Interception and CDRs - Arrests of the accused - Recoveries - Post mortem - Trial - Defence witnesses - Impugned judgment of the trial Court - Law relating to circumstantial evidence - Proving the ransom calls - Recovery of the SIM card - Recovery of the skeletal remains - Joint recovery inadmissible - Doubts concerning recovery of skeletal remains - Motive not proved - Conspiracy not proved - Homicidal death not proved - With so many links in the chain of circumstances not having been established by the prosecution it is difficult for the Court to conclude that it is the accused alone and no one else who abducted and murdered the child - Court grants benefit of doubt to the accused and acquits them of the aforementioned offences for which they have been charged - The impugned...