Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1127 · Decided 3 October 2008
State of U.P v. Ram Balak and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1127 · [2008] 14 S.C.R. 219
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 132/2002
- Decided
- 3 October 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
-i Penal Code, 1860; Ss. 302 and 376: Rape and murder of a minor - Trial Court convicted ac- cused persons for committing offences punishable under c ss.201, 302 and 376 /PC and sentenced them to death -Ac- quittal by High Court holding that circumstances do not make a complete chain to establish Correct - Though conviction can be based solely on circumstantial evidence but it should be tested by the touch- D stone of law relating to circumstantial evidence - Out of cir- -r cumstances highlighted by prosecution, none is of any sig- nificance - Evidence - Circumstantial evidence.
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