Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 456 · Decided 25 September 2001
Ram Gulam Chaudhury and ORS. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 456 · [2001] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 279
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1056/1998
- Decided
- 25 September 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, S.N. VARIAVA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 201, 302; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 201, 302 rlw 149. Murder-Corpus delicti-Whether necessary.for conviction.for murder­ Prosecution proves factum of death by reliable evidence-However corpus delicti not found-Trial Court convicted appellants-High Court upheld conviction-On appeal, held even in Act, 1872-Section 106-Burden of proving fact especially within the knowledge of the accused-Not discharged by the accused-Held, D there is everyjust{ficationfor drawing the inference that the accused committed the murder-Penal Code, 1860. According to the Prosecution the appellants-accused
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