Supreme Court of India

Jaipal v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2002] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 714
Bench R.C. Lahoti and Brijesh Kumar JJ.
Decided 1 October 2002

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From the headnote

Evidence Act, 1872-Circums/anlia/ evidence-Murder-Husband charged with murder of wife by administering poison-Conviction based on circumstanlial evidence-Appreciation of-Held, there were fatal omissions by the police in not protecting !he place of incident as well as samples of vomit, thereby depriving valuable and clinching evidence-Merely because of foul smell from !he mouth of the deceased, a case of poisoning could not be concluded-In the facts and circumslances of the case, ii is not safe to draw an inference !hat accused had administered poison lo the deceased wife.

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Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to

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