Penal Code, 1860–Secs. 302, 364 & 394 [Corresponding Secs. 103,140(1) & 309(6) of BNS, 2023]–Conviction–Sustainability–Case of circumstantial evidence–Recovery of knife and kadiya at the instance of the appellant is not reliable–The blood smeared clothes recovered from the spot of recovery of the skeleton of the deceased were not sent for FSL examination–Evidence of last seen is not corroborated with other evidence and there was a gape of thirty five days–Conviction cannot be sustained.


