India, July 11 -- A man in his 40s was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for the murder of a 19-year-old woman, whose body was found inside his rented accommodation in Noida's Sector 63 in March 2024.

The order was passed by additional sessions judge Satyendra Singh of the fast-track court, which held that the prosecution had successfully established a complete chain of circumstantial evidence against the convict.

Citing the Supreme Court's ruling in Abdul Nassar v. State of Kerala and Another (2025), the court underscored that in cases hinging on circumstantial proof, the prosecution must forge an unbroken link of circumstances that conclusively points to the accused's guilt, while ruling out all other plausible hypotheses of ...