Supreme Court of India
Mujeeb and Anr. v. State of Kerala
INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.
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
Authorities it was built on
Sign in free to read it
- The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
- The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
- Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
- Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
- Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
An email address, no password.