Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 482 · Decided 10 April 2008
Ponnusamy v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 482 · [2008] 6 S.C.R. 303
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 429/2006
- Decided
- 10 April 2008
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Evidence: Circumstantial evidence - Extra judicial confession - Husband killed wife and threw her body in canal - Few days c later made extra judicial confession - Dead body recovered from canal on disclosure statement made by him - Mother of deceased identified dead body- Conviction of husband of:;.. Held: Justified - Confession of husband led to discovery of facts which show D his connection with commission of crime - Since wife died in unnatural circumstances while she was in company of husband, he was expected to offer explanation thereof- Lack of explanation would be
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