Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 304 · Decided 26 July 2012
Arvindkumar Anupalal Poddar v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 304 · [2012] 12 S.C.R. 299
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 53/2010
- Decided
- 26 July 2012
- Bench
- SWATANTER KUMAR, F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 201134, 302, 34, 201
Headnote
Penal Code: ss. 302134 and 201134 - Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Appellant stated to have killed his first wife - Trial court convicting him and his brother - High Court upholding the conviction of appellant but acquitting his brother - Held: A B c The circumstances are hypothesis 0 of guilt of the appellant alone and none else and excluding every other hypothesis - The motive along with the chain of circumstances stood proved against the appellant go to show that the appellant alone was responsible for the killing of the deceased. Evidence: Circumstantial
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