Supreme Court of India

Baiju Kumar Soni & Anr. v. State of Jharkhand

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Bench Uday Umesh Lalit and Vineet Saran JJ.
Decided 1 August 2019

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Penal Code, 1860: ss. 364A, 201 and 302/34 – Prosecution under – Reliance on circumstantial evidence – Conviction by courts below – Appeal to Supreme Court – Held: In a case based on circumstantial evidence, every circumstance must be fully proved and all the circumstances must form a chain of evidence so complete as to exclude every hypothesis other than the guilt of the accused – The circumstances relied on in the present case do not form a chain so complete as not to leave any reasonable doubt or exclude every possible hypothesis except the one to be proved – The circumstances are also not…

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