Supreme Court · 1959 INSC 161 · Decided 14 December 1959
Anant Chintaman Lagu v. The State of Bombay
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1959 INSC 161 · [1960] 2 S.C.R. 460
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 73/1959
- Decided
- 14 December 1959
- Bench
- S.K. DAS, A.K. SARKAR, M. HIDAYATULLAH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
, z959 Decem/;er r4 . . .....;.- . ·~. - ' , / ,' -"·---~r 460' , SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1960(2)] ... ANANT CHINTAMAN LAGU v. THE STATE OF BOMBAY ~ (S. ·K. DAs,' A. K. SARKAR and M. liIDAYATULLAH, JJ.) Criminal Law-Murder by poisoning-Circumstantial evidence -Poison not by circumstantial evidence, notwithstanding that the autopsy as well as the chemical analysis fail to disclose any poison; though the cause of death may not appear to be established by direct evidence, the medical evidence of experts and the circumstances of the case may be sufficient to infer
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