In Brief
A young man was found dead in a pit with firearm injuries. Police recovered the murder weapon—a country-made pistol—from the appellant's aunt's house based on his disclosure statement. The prosecution proved the case through the deceased being last seen with the appellant and another accused, forensic evidence linking the recovered pistol to the bullets that killed the deceased, post-mortem findings, and testimony from the deceased's family members corroborated by other evidence. The High Court had acquitted the other accused while upholding the appellant's conviction. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, holding that circumstantial evidence was sufficient and that family members' testimony, when corroborated by independent evidence such as forensic reports and the recovery of the weapon, is admissible and reliable."
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