Weekly Highlights (21th -27th Feb)

Confession made to a passer-by unacceptable: Bombay High Court acquits the murder accused An extra-judicial confession would normally be given only to a person in whom the confessor has faith, not to a passer-by, as per a bench of Justices Sadhana Jadhav and Prithwiraj Chavan. As a result, the petitioners were cleared of allegations of […]

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