In Brief
A man was convicted of murdering his adopted cousin and concealing the body. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction based on circumstantial evidence: the accused disclosed the burial location and led police to recover the body, made an extrajudicial confession to a relative about killing the victim with an axe during a quarrel over land, and repeatedly misled the victim's mother about his whereabouts. Although the murder weapon was not forensically examined and no explicit motive was formally established, the Court held that these circumstances formed a complete chain pointing only to the appellant's guilt, and dismissed his appeal.
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