Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 190 · Decided 13 March 2014
Kanhaiya Lal v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 190 · [2014] 3 S.C.R. 744
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 595/2014
- Decided
- 13 March 2014
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, C. NAGAPPAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: C ss. 302 and 201 - Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Dead body recovered from the well belonging to accused­ appellant - Appellant and deceased stated to have been last seen together previous night - Witness declared hostile - Held: In the instant case, circumstance of last lead to the inference that it was appellant who committed the crime - Mere non-explanation on the part of appellant, by itself cannot lead to proof of guilt against him - Motive is not established -Conviction of appellant cannot be maintained merely on suspicion, however strong it may be, or
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