Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 287 · Decided 10 July 2001
Gade Lakshmi Mangraju @ Ramesh v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 287 · [2001] 3 S.C.R. 830
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 58/2000
- Decided
- 10 July 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34
Headnote
Criminal Trial : Sniffer Dog-Tracking down of criminals by-Evidentiary value of- C Held : Trained dogs can pick up scent from the scene of crime and reach the hideouts of culprits-However, the possibility of error.on its part or its master cannot be ruled out-Hence, criminal courts need not bother dogs to track down criminals. D Fingerprint-Presence of-At the scene of crime-Evidentiary value of -Held: Is a positive evidence of presence of the culprit at the scene of crime -However, its absence is not a guarantee of absence of the person concerned. Circumstantial evidence-Evaluation
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