Supreme Court of India

Mujeeb and Anr. v. State of Kerala

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Reported as [1999] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 16
Bench G.B. Pattanaik, M. Srinivasan and S.N. Phukan JJ.
Decided 29 November 1999

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the prosecution has failed to establish the guilt of the accused cogently and C firmly.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: Section 34, 120- , 201, 302 and 392-Decision based on circumstantial evidence alone-The evidence should be strong and such that, within all human probability, no conclusion other than the guilt of the accused is possible, to convict the CfCCused-lf there is any shortcoming in the evidential chain linking the various circumstances leading to the crime, accused cannot be held guilty. The case against the appellants was that they hired the taxi of the deceased, killed him and disposed off his body. When they took the car to a garage for repair, it was found that the

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