Disclosure statements not strong enough to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt: SC

The Supreme Court has reiterated that disclosure statements are not "so strong a piece of evidence sufficient on its own and without anything more" to prove the guilt beyond reasonable doubt.

- AGENCIES

A bench of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan was dealing with a criminal appeal, where the trial court had convicted the appellant under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and sentenced him to undergo life imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs 1 lakh.

As per the prosecution, the appellant stabbed the deceased with a knife. Allegedly, there was previous enmity between the appellant and the deceased as the latter was allegedly involved in the murder of the former's elder brother.

In the impugned decision, the conviction and sentence were confirmed in the appeal by the Kerala High Court.