The Calcutta High Court has ruled that failure to recover the weapon used in a murder does not, by itself, make the prosecution case unreliable if the killing is otherwise proved through credible evidence. The division bench upheld the conviction and life sentence of three persons involved in a 1999 murder in Purba Bardhaman district.

A bench of Justice Debangsu Ghosh and Justice Md Shabbar Rashidi , while affirming the verdict of the Additional Sessions Judge, Katwa, observed that the prosecution had “sufficiently been 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,” the court said in its judgment deliver

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