Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1322 · Decided 30 September 2022
Munikrishna @ Krishna ETC. v. State BY Ulsoor PS
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1322 · [2022] 13 S.C.R. 415
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1597/2022
- Decided
- 30 September 2022
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, S. RAVINDRA BHAT, SUDHANSHU DHULIA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; CrPC Section 161; Evidence Act Section 25, 27; Constitution Article 20(3)
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 34 - Constitution of India - Article 20(3) - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.161 - Evidence Act - ss.25, 27 - Murder of old aged person - Circumstantial Evidence - Appellants were convicted u/s.302 r/w s.34 Order of conviction and sentence upheld by High Court - On appeal, held: In a case of circumstantial evidence, the entire chain of evidence must be complete and the conclusions arrived after examining the chain of evidence must point towards the culpability of the accused and to no other
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