Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1184 · Decided 6 October 2025
Nazim & ORS. v. The State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1184 · [2025] 10 S.C.R. 263
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 715/2018
- Decided
- 6 October 2025
- Bench
- M.M. SUNDRESH, SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201, 120
Headnote
Whether the prosecution has succeeded in establishing, beyond a reasonable doubt, a complete chain of circumstances leading only to the conclusion of guilt of the Appellants, or whether the circumstances leave room for reasonable doubt - Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 201, 120-B - Conviction of the appellants u/ss.302, 201, 120-B, IPC rested largely on the testimony of three prosecution witnesses, PW-2, PW-3 and PW-4 - Interference with: Held: 1.1 Prosecution failed to establish a complete and unbroken
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