Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 854 · Decided 1 August 2019
Baiju Kumar Soni & ANR. v. State of Jharkhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 854 · [2019] 10 S.C.R. 1111
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 42/2018
- Decided
- 1 August 2019
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, VINEET SARAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 364A, 201, 302, 34, 364, 365
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 364A, 201 and 302/34 - Prosecution under - Reliance on circumstantial evidence - Conviction by courts below - Appeal to Supreme Court - Held: In a case based on circumstantial evidence, every circumstance must be fully proved and all the as to exclude every hypothesis other than the guilt of the accused - The circumstances relied on in the present case do not form a chain so complete as not to leave any reasonable doubt or exclude every possible hypothesis except the one to be proved - The circumstances are also not
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