Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1242 · Decided 4 November 2008
Mula Devi & ANR. v. ST Ate of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1242 · [2008] 15 S.C.R. 319
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1722/2008
- Decided
- 4 November 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201
Headnote
319 A B \ 1 Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302 rlw 34 and 201 - Conviction y under, by Courts below - Case resting on circumstantial .C evidence - Conditions precedent for conviction on basis of circumstantial evidence, elucidated - Held: On facts, both Trial Court and High Court came to abrupt of accused - Circumstances indicated by Trial Court did not present a complete chain of circumstances to implicate D the accused-Appellants - Hence conviction of the Appellants not justified. The prosecution case was that while Appellant~., i.e. the mother-in-law and sister-in-law of the
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