Supreme Court of India

Santosh Kumar Singh v. State Thr. Cbi

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Reported as [2010] 13 S.C.R. 901

Bench Harjit Singh Bedi and Chandramauli Kr. Prasad JJ.

Decided 6 October 2010

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the trial court was in error on this score.

Judgment, page 42

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 376, 302 - Conviction based on circumstantial evidence - Victim found dead in her house with 19 injuries on her person with three broken ribs - Trial court acquitted the accused holding that although few circumstances were in favour of prosecution, however, DNA report was not reliable and, therefore, case against the accused was not proved beyond reasonable doubt - High o Court9relying on the circumstantial evidence, convicted the accused ulss. 302, 376 and awarded death sentence - On appeal, held: Circumstances formed a chain so complete that there was no escape from

Authorities it was built on

2006 Trimukh Maroti Kirkan v. State of Maharashtra cited by 45
2002 Ashish Batham v. State of Madhya Pradesh cited by 7

Where later benches applied it

2017 Mukesh & Anr. v. State for Nct of Delhi & Ors. relied on
2015 State of U.P. v. Om Prakash relied on
2014 Nar Singh v. State of Haryana relied on
2013 Gian Chand & Ors. v. State of Haryana relied on
2012 Neel Kumar @ Anil Kumar v. The State of Haryana relied on
2011 Fahim Khan v. State of Bihar Now Jharkhand relied on
2022 Manoj & Ors v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2019 Union of India & Ors. v. Sandeep Kumar Etc. referred to
2013 Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2013 Bakhshish Singh v. State of Punjab & Anr. distinguished

Of those, 6 relied on · 1 distinguished · 3 referred to

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