Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 256 · Decided 27 February 2025
The State of Chattisgarh v. Ashok Bhoi ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 256 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 1785
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1258/2015
- Decided
- 27 February 2025
- Bench
- BELA M. TRIVEDI, PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Whether the High Court was justified in allowing the criminal appeal preferred by accused-respondent and dismissing acquittal appeal preferred by the State, thereby acquitting both the accused persons. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - Whether the chain of circumstances to prove the guilt of the accused persons as the case is based on Circumstantial Evidence - Correctness: Held: The entire case of the prosecution hinged on the circumstantial evidence, there was no eye-witness to the alleged incident - So far as accused-AB is
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