Bilaspur : The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld the life imprisonment of a man convicted of murdering a youth in Sarangarh-Bilaigarh district, finding that the chain of circumstantial and forensic evidence clearly established his guilt. In a judgment delivered on March 13, 2026, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar…
Citation : 2025 Local Law (CG) 862 : 2025:CGHC:54999-DB The Chhattisgarh High Court at Bilaspur has partially allowed an appeal and reduced a murder conviction to the lesser offence of grievous hurt, while keeping the accused’s conviction for concealment of a body intact. In a bench judgment delivered on November 12, 2025, Justices Rajani Dubey…
Chhattisgarh High Court says evidence supports homicide but not premeditated murder; kerosene on seized items and postmortem findings weigh in The High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur on 16 October 2025 partly allowed an appeal in CRA No. 1959 of 2019 and altered the conviction of Smt. Janaki Sidar. Originally convicted and sentenced to life…
Citation : 2001 Local Law (CG) 22 The Chhattisgarh High Court has set aside the death sentence of a man convicted for the murder and dismemberment of his mother, holding that the prosecution failed to prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt. The court described the trial court’s findings as “contrary to law and evidence” and…