Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 800 · Decided 4 June 2025
Vaibhav v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 800 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 407
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1643/2012
- Decided
- 4 June 2025
- Bench
- B.V. NAGARATHNA, SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 5, 201; Evidence Act Section 8; Arms Act Section 25(1)(a)
Headnote
In a case based on circumstantial evidence where there were missing links in the chain of circumstances, whether the finding of the High Court regarding the conviction of the appellant for offences u/ss.302, 201 r/w s.34, Penal Code, 1860 and s.5 r/w s.25(1)(a), Arms Act, of the evidence on record. Circumstantial evidence - Missing links in the chain of circumstances - Accidental gunshot injury - Appellant was convicted u/ss.302, 201 r/w s.34, Penal Code, 1860 and s.5 r/w 25(1)(a), Arms Act, 1959 for the murder of his friend
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