In Brief
Darshan Singh and two co-appellants were convicted of murdering an elderly woman, Surjit Kaur, following a property dispute over unpaid lease money. The appellants made extra-judicial confessions to a third party detailing how they administered poison, strangulated the victim with a scarf, and disposed of the body by acid and motorcycle. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, holding that extra-judicial confessions, when corroborated by circumstantial evidence—including recovery of acid bottle, the motorcycle, post-crime conduct (absconding and non-attendance at ceremonies), and postmortem findings—provide a sufficient basis for conviction beyond reasonable doubt.
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