Supreme Court of India

Ram Niwas v. State of Haryana

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Bench B.R. Gavai and Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha JJ.
Decided 11 August 2022

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Evidence – Circumstantial evidence – Completion of chain of evidence – Held: There has to be a chain of evidence so complete so as not to leave any reasonable ground for a conclusion consistent with the innocence of the accused and must show that in all human probability the act must have been done by the accused – Circumstances should be of a conclusive nature and tendency – The circumstances should exclude every possible hypothesis except the one to be proved – The accused ‘must be’ and not merely ‘may be’ guilty before a Court can convict – It is settled law that the suspicion, however…

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