Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 407 · Decided 7 September 2005
Anantlal Ghosh v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 407 · [2005] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 113
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 293/2004
- Decided
- 7 September 2005
- Bench
- H.K. SEMA, TARUN CHATTERJEE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201rl, 210, 34, 201
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860-Sections 302 and 201rlw34-Murder-Prosecution for-Conviction by Courts below on the basis of Circumstantial evidence and evidence of prosecution witnesses-On appeal, held: Conviction justified as C circumstances of the case consistently point to the guilt of the accused and of-Held: Such evidence in order D to sustain conviction must be complete and incapable of any other hypothesis other than guilt of the accused. Appellant-acc1Jsed was convicted by Courts below u/s 302/210/34 IPC for having caused death of a person. The conviction was based or
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