Supreme Court rules that a confession in an FIR lodged by the accused is inadmissible under the Evidence Act, setting aside the conviction in a sensational murder case.
A 68-year-old man was convicted of a 1976 theft after confessing, bringing closure to India’s longest-running court case after 49 years.
Vijayawada: The family of a young techie from Machilipatnam, who was murdered in Mumbai in 2014, is devastated after the Supreme Court acquitted Chandraban Sanap, who was on death row. The victim’s father, a retired professor, expressed his deep sorrow and disbelief over the verdict, which reversed the previous rulings of the lower courts.
