Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 420 · Decided 1 October 2002
Jaipal v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 420 · [2002] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 714
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 705/2001
- Decided
- 1 October 2002
- Bench
- R.C. LAHOTI, BRIJESH KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 125; Evidence Act
Headnote
Evidence Act, 1872-Circums/anlia/ evidence-Murder-Husband charged with murder of wife by administering poison-Conviction based on C circumstanlial evidence-Appreciation of-Held, there were fatal omissions by the police in not protecting !he place of incident as well as samples of vomit, thereby of poisoning could not be concluded-In the facts and circumslances of the case, ii is not safe to draw an inference !hat accused had administered poison lo the deceased wife. D Molive-Circumstances-Proof of-Discussed Accused-appellant and the deceased-wife could not pull on well and there arose
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