Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 818 · Decided 11 August 2022
Ram Niwas v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 818 · [2022] 13 S.C.R. 138
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 25/2012
- Decided
- 11 August 2022
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201
Headnote
Evidence - Circumstantial evidence - Completion of chain of evidence - Held: There has to be a chain of evidence so complete so as not to leave any reasonable ground for a conclusion consistent with the innocence of the accused and must show that in all human probability the act by the accused - Circumstances should be of a conclusive nature and tendency - The circumstances should exclude every possible hypothesis except the one to be proved - The accused 'must be' and not merely 'may be' guilty before a Court can convict
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