In Brief
A police officer and two constables robbed and murdered a glass-sheets dealer during a night journey. The victim's employee, the sole eyewitness, was threatened into silence for 16 months. Three other police officers manipulated the initial investigation and filed a false accident report. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions of all six accused based on the eyewitness's delayed but credible testimony, post-mortem evidence of asphyxia, and circumstantial evidence of crime-scene tampering and body relocation. The Court rejected arguments that delay in disclosure undermined witness credibility, given that threat had coerced the employee's silence.
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