Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 67 · Decided 29 January 2010
Satni Bai v. State of M. P. (Now Chhattisgarh)
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 67 · [2010] 2 S.C.R. 186
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 212/2010
- Decided
- 29 January 2010
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, H.L. DATTU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 - Conviction under, on the basis of circumstantial evidence - Accused prosecuted for C killing 11er own son - Evidence of close relatives that accused was found near dead body of her son with blood stained axe in her hand - Her sari was also blood stained - On seeing them, crime - Circumstances pointing her involvement in the crime - D Defence not able to dispel the chain of events which emerged from the testimony of these witnesses -Case of false implication also not made out - No reason to interfere with the order of conviction - Evidence - Circumstantial
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