Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 794 · Decided 7 November 2006
State of Rajasthan v. Kashi Ram
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 794 · [2006] SUPP. 8 S.C.R. 501
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 745/2000
- Decided
- 7 November 2006
- Bench
- B.P. SINGH, TARUN CHATTERJEE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 313; Evidence Act Section 27, 106
Headnote
Indian Evidence Act. I 872; Section 106-deceased last seen together-Burden to prove what happened thereafter-Held, on the accused C Section 106-circumstantial evidence-facts specially within the knowledge of the accused--burden of proof-Held, -is not shifted but failure to adduce any explanation is a weak piece of evidence but to base a conviction on the same, it must be proved like any other fact and the value thereof depended upon the veracity of the witnesses to whom it was made. The respondent was accused of committing murder of his wife and two daughters and disappearing
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