Supreme Court of India

State of U.P. v. Satish

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Reported as [2005] 1 S.C.R. 1132

Bench Arijit Pasa Yat and S.H. Kapadia JJ.

Decided 8 February 2005

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Penal Code-Sections 302 and 376-Rape followed by murder Conviction by trial Court on circumstantial evidence i.e. accused last seen with deceased and recovery of undergarments of accused and deceased High Court ordering acquittal holding that circumstances not inspiring confidence-On appeal, held: High Court erred in ordering acquittal-Chain of evidence on record is complete as to show that crime was committed by the accused-Deposition of witnesses showed that deceased and accused were last seen together-High Court drew an adverse inference without indicating any reason and hence not

Authorities it was built on

1983 Earabhadrappa Alias Krishnappa v. State of Karnataka cited by 70

Where later benches applied it

2025 Nazim & Ors. v. The State of Uttarakhand relied on
2025 The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Balveer Singh relied on
2023 Boby v. State of Kerala relied on
2025 Goverdhan & Anr. v. State of Chhattisgarh referred to
2024 Suresh Chandra Tiwari & Anr. v. State of Uttarakhand referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 2 referred to

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