Supreme Court of India

Venkatesan v. State of Tamil Nadu

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Reported as [2008] 8 S.C.R. 1060
Decided 16 May 2008

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Penal Code, 1860: s.302 - Conviction based on circum- c stantial evidence - Last seen theory - On facts, held: Wit- nesses did not speak of the date but only stated that they saw dcecased with accused on Tuesday - No evidence to show that accused and deceased were last seen together - Courts · below not justified in ordering conviction - Evidence - Cir- cumstantial evidence. i Prosecution case was that the deceased had illicit • relations with the wife of -1 and had also tried to molest wife of -2. On 21.4.1988, when father of deceased, PW-2 returned to village, he found his son missing from

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