In Brief
Rikhiram was convicted of murdering Ghasnin Bai along with his co-accused Virendra Kumar. The victim's son (PW-1) witnessed his mother lying mortally wounded on a cot after being lured into a rented room. Rikhiram then confined the son in the same room and locked the door from outside before fleeing with the others. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, holding that Rikhiram's contemporaneous conduct—confining the victim's injured son and locking the door—demonstrates his conscious participation and knowledge of the murder, thereby proving his guilt beyond reasonable doubt despite the lack of direct eye-witness testimony to the actual crime.
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