Bengaluru Court Convicts Murderers Without Body

Times of India · india

A Bengaluru court has sentenced two men to life imprisonment for the 2021 kidnapping and murder of a 47-year-old widow, despite her body never being recovered. The convicts, Noor Ahmed S and Satyanarayana, were found guilty of a contract killing motivated by a property dispute. They poisoned the victim, Seetha Achar, with cyanide and disposed of her body in a canal. This landmark verdict establishes a rare legal precedent for murder convictions without a corpus delicti, highlighting the court's reliance on digital evidence and confessions.