In Brief
Ramesh Chauhan and another were convicted of murdering an elderly woman and robbing her apartment. Their conviction and the High Court's upholding thereof were challenged. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, holding that circumstantial evidence—including eyewitness testimony of the appellants entering the building at the relevant time, recovery of stolen items at their instance, and the absence of any alternative explanation—conclusively established their guilt beyond reasonable doubt. The Court found that all statutory requirements for conviction based on circumstantial evidence were satisfied, and no formal identification parade was necessary since the appellants failed to challenge the witnesses' identification of them in cross-examination.
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