Circumstantial evidence
ratnesh singh tomar
(Querist) 17 July 2011
This query is : Open
A person died in his own house by hanging himself, Informant lodged FIR against his own family members on the allegation that they killed in the greed of porperty. And named two eye witness, who were declared hostile in the case, during post mortem report after more than 14 days of incident doctor found and submitted his report as strangulation. Only on the basis of statement given by informant who is not the eye witness on the basis of heresay evidence the court convicted accused by life sentence. whether it is correct? give judgments