Supreme Court · 1955 INSC 47 · Decided 28 September 1955
Deonandan Mishra v. The State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1955 INSC 47 · [1955] 2 S.C.R. 570
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 19/1955
- Decided
- 28 September 1955
- Bench
- VIVIAN BOSE, B. JAGANNADHADAS, BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
28 570 SUPREME COURT REPORTS DEONANDAN MISHRA fl. THE STATE OF BIHAR. [1955] (VIVIAN BosE, JAGANNADHADAS and B. P. SINHA JJ.] Circumstantial evidence-Conviction based thereon-Standard of proof-Various links completing the chain of evidence-Failure to offer an explanation by the accused-Whether According to that standard the circumstances relied upon in support of the conviction must be fully established and the chain of evidence furnished by those circumstances must be so far complete as not to leave any reasonable ground for a conclusion con­ sistent with the innocence of the
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