In Brief
A young bride, Bhoomi @ Richa, was brutally murdered inside her marital home six months after marriage. Her body was cut into two pieces and disposed of in a public garden. The father-in-law and husband appealed their convictions for murder under IPC Section 302 read with Section 34. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, holding that in cases of secret murder within a house, inmates bear a burden under Section 106 of the Evidence Act to explain the death. The complete chain of circumstantial evidence—the murder occurring in the house, blood stains found there, the body's disposal by the mother-in-law (witnessed by multiple persons), multiple ante-mortem injuries indicating plural assailants, and the appellants' false alibi—established guilt beyond doubt. The Court rejected the alibi defence that they were at their shop, dismissing the appeals.
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