Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 620 · Decided 10 September 2014
Sangili @ Sanganathan v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 620 · [2014] 7 S.C.R. 788
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 639/2011
- Decided
- 10 September 2014
- Bench
- JASTI CHELAMESWAR, A.K. SIKRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder - Circumstantial C evidence - Prosecution case that appellant guilty of killing the deceased; resting the case on circumstantial evidence - Conviction and sentence of life imprisonment uls. 302 by courts below - On appeal held: Suspicion however strong cannot be resting completely on the circumstantial evidence the chain of circumstances D mµst be so complete to lead to the guilt of the accused - On facts, chain of events incomplete, thus not safe to convict the appellant - Appellant entitled to benefit of doubt - Order of conviction and sentence
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