Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 363 · Decided 6 May 2004
Vilas Pandurang Patil v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 363 · [2004] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 395
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 367/1999
- Decided
- 6 May 2004
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 404; CrPC Section 378; Evidence Act
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860-Sections 302 and 404-Murder-Prosecution for-Circumstantial evidence-Extra-judicial confession-Recovery of blood-stained articles at the behest of accused and presence of blood in his nail clippings-Acquittal by trial Court-On re-appreciation of evidence C conviction by High D Circumstantial evidence-Evidentiary value and nature of-A crime can be proved by circumstantial evidence-The principal fact or factum probandum may be proved indirectly by means of certain inferences drawn from factum probans-ln such evidence guilt can be justified when all the incriminating
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