Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 760 · Decided 8 May 2009
Joydeep Neogi @ Bubai v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 760 · [2009] 8 S.C.R. 291
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1285/2006
- Decided
- 8 May 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34
Headnote
' Penal Gode, 1860: s. 302 - Murder - Missing boy seen last at a particular place - Accused persons also seen there c the whole day - Recovery of dead body of boy - Conviction based on cirqumstantial evidence - (;hal/enged by A 1 and A2 - Held: Presence of accused for whole day in a specific prosecution witnesses to search in other place and not allowing them to search at a particular D place destroys the presumption of innocence - Unnatural, abnormal or unusual behaviour of the accused after the offence relevant circumstan<;e against them - Circumstances establishing
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