No beard, but ‘shaving marks’ link body to missing man: Court backs murder conviction

The defence questioned the identification of the body because the missing man’s wife said he had a beard. The post-mortem report, however, recorded that the recovered body had a clean-shaven face, the Delhi High Court noted.A missing beard on the body of a businessman became a key point of challenge before the Delhi High Court in a murder case, with the defence arguing that the body of the clean-shaven man recovered in Bulandshahar could not be conclusively identified as that of Mohd Hanif, the victim in the case.