Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 57 · Decided 14 March 1974
Dharam Das Wadhwani v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 57 · [1974] 3 S.C.R. 607
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 222/1970
- Decided
- 14 March 1974
- Bench
- HANS RAJ KHANNA, V.R. KRISHNA IYER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC
Headnote
Practice-Criminal Trial-Circun1stantial evidence-Appreciation of 607 The accused, a compounder in a hospital was charged with the offence under s. 328 I. P. C., of administering poison to one of the two doctors of the hospital. He was acquitted by the trial court but found guilty by the High proof by circumstantial evidence, is that such· testimony can be the probative basis for conviction only if one rigorous test is satis­ fied, namely, that the circumstances must make so strong a mesh that the inno­ cence of the accused is wholly excluded itnd on every reasonable
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