Life Sentence To Man On Circumstantial Evidence: Calcutta High Court Relies On ‘Last-Seen’ Theory In Woman’s Death Case
The Calcutta High Court upheld the man’s conviction, holding that circumstantial evidence sufficiently established responsibility for the woman’s death—but would the outcome have been same if the accused had been a woman? Life Sentence To Man: In a recent decision, the Calcutta High Court bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha and Justice Rai Chattopadhyay upheld the conviction of Md. Abdul Mottalab Mia in a murder case from Jalpaiguri, West…