The Hindu·3 min read·medium
SC says call records alone not cogent proof, clears woman of husband’s murder
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Aaratrika Bhaumik
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The Supreme Court of India has acquitted a woman accused of murdering her husband in 2007, ruling that telephone call records alone do not constitute sufficient evidence for a conviction. The court emphasized that motive and circumstantial evidence must be supported by substantive proof.
Nearly two decades after a banker was found dead and investigators accused his wife of plotting the crime with her purported lover, the Supreme Court has exonerated the woman, holding that the mere production of telephone call records cannot substitute the “substantive proof” required to sustain a conviction for murder.
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