Failure to Explain Wife's Death in Matrimonial Home Completes Chain of Guilt; Husband and In-Laws' Murder Conviction Upheld: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that where a woman dies an unnatural death inside her matrimonial home and the prosecution establishes a complete chain of circumstantial evidence pointing towards the guilt of the accused, the burden shifts upon the inmates of the house under Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 to explain the circumstances of her death. The Division Bench of Justice J.J. Munir and Justice Saurabh…
