Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 185 · Decided 15 February 2022
Satye Singh & Another v. State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 185 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 1137
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2374/2014
- Decided
- 15 February 2022
- Bench
- SANJIV KHANNA, BELA M. TRIVEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34, 201, 498A; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 34 and 201 - Homicidal death - Circumstantial evidence - Dead body of married woman found in burnt condition in the Chhan (hut) of her husband - Father of the deceased gave written complaint implicating the husband, mother- in-law and Accused-appellants i.e. husband and mother-in-law of the deceased were convicted by the Sessions Court u/s 302 r/w ss.34 and 201 IPC - High Court upheld the conviction - Propriety - Held: Conviction can be based solely on circumstantial evidence but it should be tested on the
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