Pechchamuthu Ganesh alias Kalu Vs. The Hon. Attorney General – CA/HCC/72/2018-2024

In the case between the Hon. Attorney General (representing the State) and Pechchamuthu Ganesh alias Kalu, the court addressed the issue of whether the appellant’s conviction and death sentence for the murder of Mayalagu Yogeshwari were sustainable, given challenges to the reliability of circumstantial evidence, the chain of custody for recovered items, and the legal evaluation of a dock statement and confession. The court held that the totality of the circumstantial evidence unmistakably established the appellant’s guilt and that the evidentiary objections raised on appeal did not undermine the soundness of the trial court’s evaluation. The principle that cumulative circumstantial evidence can support a conviction if it unerringly points to the accused’s guilt was reaffirmed. This decisio