Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 170 · Decided 9 February 2025
Ravi v. The State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 170 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 526
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 633/2025
- Decided
- 9 February 2025
- Bench
- PANKAJ MITHAL, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 313; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Issue arose as regards the correctness of the order passed by the High Court convicting the appellant-husband for the murder of his wife. Evidence - Circumstantial evidence - Burden of proof - Prosecution case that brother of the deceased in connivance with his second wife, and that his other sister- neighbour of the appellant, had seen the appellant committing the murder of the deceased by strangulating her with a rope and had threatened her not to disclose anything - Appellant also brought the dead body from
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