‘Conviction Can’t Rest on Extra-Judicial Confession Without Solid Proof’: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow Bench set aside a 2006 triple-murder conviction, as Justices Rajnish Kumar and Zafeer Ahmad ruled the circumstantial evidence incomplete and unreliable. The court stressed extra-judicial confessions are weak, and recoveries cannot prove guilt reasonable doubt.