Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 907 · Decided 24 November 2024
Suresh Chandra Tiwari & ANR. v. State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 907 · [2024] 11 S.C.R. 1233
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1902/2013
- Decided
- 24 November 2024
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34, 201, 300; CrPC; Evidence Act
Headnote
(a) Whether the circumstances relied by the prosecution have been proved beyond reasonable doubt; (b) whether those circumstances are of a definite tendency unerringly pointing towards the guilt of the accused; (c) whether those circumstances taken cumulatively form a that there is no escape from the conclusion that within all human probability the crime was committed by the accused; (d) whether they are consistent only with the hypothesis of the accused being guilty; and (e) whether they exclude every possible hypothesis except the one to be proved.
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