Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 393 · Decided 10 August 2021
Parubai v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 393 · [2021] 8 S.C.R. 135
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1154/2018
- Decided
- 10 August 2021
- Bench
- HEMANT GUPTA, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 436
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 436 - Murder - Fire incident at mid-night wherein house of appellant and her family engulfed in flames - Appellant-second wife came out of the house unscathed, whereas the first wife and her two children caught by flames and two of them died later by the courts below, though her husband and her mother-in-law acquitted by the trial court - On appeal, held: Links in the chain of circumstances is necessary to be established for conviction on the basis of circumstantial evidence - Mere suspicion would not be sufficient, unless the
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