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Hanumant v. The State of Madhya Pradesh

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Bench Mehr Chand Mahajan, Das and Bhagwati JJ.
Decided 23 September 1952

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Criminal trial-Circumstantial evidence-Sufficiency of evid­ ence for conviction-Caution against basing conviction on guess or suspicion-Admission-Must be taken as a whole. In dealing with circumstantial evidenee there is always the danger that conjecture or suspicion may take the place of legal proof. It is therefore right to remember that in cases where the evidence is of a circumstantal nature, the circumstances from which the conclusion of guilt is to be drawn should in the first instance be fully established and all the facts so established should be consistent only with the hypothesis of…

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