Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 211 · Decided 6 March 2024
Ravinder Kumar v. State of NCT of Delhi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 211 · [2024] 3 S.C.R. 767
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 918/2024
- Decided
- 6 March 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 304B, 34, 498A; CrPC Section 173; Evidence Act Section 106, 27
Headnote
1) Whether circumstantial evidence is sufficient to convict the accused; 2) Whether burden of proof u/s. 106 Evidence Act can be on accused before the prosecution proves its case; 3) Whether recovery pursuant to statement made u/s. 27 Evidence Act can be admissible, when known to all and not exclusively within knowledge of maker. Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Conviction based on circumstantial evidence - Evidence Act, 1872 - ss. 106, 27 - Appellant's wife found dead with throat slit - Appellant convicted by trial court
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