Supreme Court · 1952 INSC 41 · Decided 23 September 1952
Hanumant v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1952 INSC 41 · [1952] 1 S.C.R. 1091
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 56/1951
- Decided
- 23 September 1952
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 465; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS HANUMANT v THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH. RAOJIBHAI ti, THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH. 1091 [MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, DAS and BHAGWATI JJ.] Criminal trial-Circumstantial evidence-Sufficiency of evid­ ence for conviction-Caution against basing conviction on guess or remember that in cases where the evidence is of a circumstantal nature, the circumstances from which the conclusion of guilt is to be drawn should in the first instance be fully established and all the facts so established should be consistent only with the hypothesis of the guilt of the
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