Bengal

XKolkata: The Calcutta High Court has held that non-recovery of a weapon used in a murder cannot render a prosecution case unreliable since the killing was established from evidence at the trial. The court made the observation while affirming the conviction and life sentence of three persons in a murder case of 1999. It also observed that the prosecution was sufficiently able to prove the charges levelled against the appellants with the help of convincing evidence. "As such, we find no justification in interfering with the impugned judgment of conviction and order of sentence. We affirm the same," a division bench presided by Justice Debangsu Ghosh ruled in a judgment on Friday. The court said that since it is established from the evidence at the trial that the victim was murdered

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