Supreme Court · 1981 INSC 2 · Decided 6 January 1981
Rama Nand and ORS. v. State of Himachal Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1981 INSC 2 · [1981] 2 S.C.R. 444
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 17/1975
- Decided
- 6 January 1981
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, R.S. PATHAK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201; Evidence Act Section 3
Headnote
F G H H4 RAMA NAND AND ORS. v. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH January 6, 1981 [R. S. SARKARIA AND R. S. PATHAK. JJ.] Clrcumstantial evidence, "·alue of-Corpus delicti not found in tlu· case­ Wllether inference of guilt of murder could be drawn l1·/ie11 rhe oth~r and sentences of the appellants, the Court HELD : (I) It is well settled that where the inference of guilt of an accused PeriiOn .is to be drawn ftoin circumstantinP evidence only, thoSe circutrt­ stances must, in the first place, be cogently established. Further, those cin:um­
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