Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 556 · Decided 9 July 1997
Mangat Rai v. Stte of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 556 · [1997] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 661
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 683/1990
- Decided
- 9 July 1997
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, S.B. MAJMUDAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
ST A TE OF PUNJAB JULY 9, 1997 B [M.M. PUNCHHI AND S.B. MAJMUDAR, JJ.) Criminal trial : Circumstantial evidence-Circwnstances establishing guilt of the ac­ cused-Insufficient dow1y being motive of crime-Accused creating wrong C evidence of hanging-Defence of suicide set up by the accused for administering the poison-Conduct of the accused in not immediately inf onning the relatives of the deceased and his D absconding from the scene of offence-Though by itself not conclusive, becomes clinching circumstance against the accused-Held, in the cir­ cumstances of the case,
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