Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 1029 · Decided 31 October 2018
Reena Hazarika v. State of Assam
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 1029 · [2018] 13 S.C.R. 1108
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1330/2018
- Decided
- 31 October 2018
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, NAVIN SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Leave Granted & Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 313; Evidence Act Section 106; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Evidence: Circumstantial evidence - Links in the chain of circumstances - Determination of - Prosecution case that wife killed her husband on basis of the last seen theory and the unnatural conduct of wife - Conviction u/s 302 IPC by the courts below - On appeal, available coupled with the manner of its consideration, the links in the chain of circumstances in a case of circumstantial evidence not established to prove that the appellant was the assailant of the deceased - Possibility that the occurrence may have taken place in some other manner
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