Supreme Court Upholds Circumstantial Evidence in Murder Conviction

Kathmandu. The Supreme Court has made a significant legal interpretation that an accused can be convicted even in the absence of direct evidence in a murder case, provided there is a chain of circumstantial evidence.

The full bench of Supreme Court Justices Mahesh Sharma Paudel, Nityananda Pandey, and Meghraj Pokharel, while upholding the previous life imprisonment sentence for Chhanchi Gharti on the charge of murdering her own husband, made this interpretation. This decision by the full bench of the Supreme Court, which upheld the life imprisonment sentence for Rolpa's Chhanchi Gharti for the murder of her husband Vasti Gharti, who had returned from foreign employment, has further clarified the Evidence Act and principles of criminal justice. The full bench's decision, made on Jestha 31, was recently made public in its full text.