New Delhi, April 12: Extra-judicial confession is sufficent to convict an accused if it is made to a person whose testimony is found to be reliable, the Supreme Court has ruled.
A bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan passed the judgement, upholding the life sentence of Jasvinder Singh and Kulvinder Singh for the murder of Amardeep, son of Ishwar Singh on October 9, 1997 in Haryana.
Amardeep was inflicted with 22 stab injuries as he was allegedly teasing the wife and sister of Jasvinder Singh.
Though there were no eye-witnesses to the killing, the sessions court awarded life imprisonment relying on circumstantial evidence and testimony of Phool Singh, a prosecution witness and ex-sarpanch of the village to whom the duo confessed and sought help in surrendering to the police.
-Agencies