Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 237 · Decided 17 December 1980
Shankarlal Gyarasilal Dixit v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 237 · [1981] 2 S.C.R. 384
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 766/1980
- Decided
- 17 December 1980
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, A.P. SEN, BAHARUL ISLAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 302
Headnote
Evidence-CircumstanJi'al evidence-Tests to be applied while evaluating circumstantial evidence-Falsity of defence-If could take the place of proof of facts--"Shadow of doubt" meaning of. The prosecution alleged that when the deceased girl did :.iot ictu1n home C for quite some time from of her. Believing that .she might be in the ~ppellant's house. they repeatedly knocked at the door whict> wns locked from inside, but tl1ere was no response from within. At that moment P .W. 5 who lived next to the appellant's house, arrived on the scene. P.W. 5 climbed over the roof of his
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