Case Law Analysis
|Gauhati High Court
Section 26 IEA | Extrajudicial Confessions in Police Presence Inadmissible; Circumstantial Evidence Must Form Unbroken Chain : Gauhati HC
Gauhati HC acquitted the accused in a murder-arson case, ruling that extrajudicial confessions made in police presence are inadmissible under Section 26 of the Indian Evidence Act. The court emphasized that circumstantial evidence must form a complete, unbroken chain to secure conviction, failing which benefit of doubt accrues to the accused.