Supreme Court of India

Arvindkumar Anupalal Poddar v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2012] 12 S.C.R. 299
Bench Swatanter Kumar and Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla JJ.
Decided 26 July 2012

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Penal Code: ss. 302134 and 201134 - Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Appellant stated to have killed his first wife - Trial court convicting him and his brother - High Court upholding the conviction of appellant but acquitting his brother - Held: c The circumstances are consistent leading to the hypothesis 0 of guilt of the appellant alone and none else and excluding every other hypothesis - The motive along with the chain of circumstances stood proved against the appellant go to show that the appellant alone was responsible for the killing of the deceased. Evidence: Circumstantial evidence

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