Supreme Court of India

Sujit Biswas v. State of Assam

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Reported as [2013] 3 S.C.R. 830

Bench Dr. B.S. Chauhan and Dipak Misra JJ.

Decided 28 May 2013

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From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - s.376(2)(f) and 302 - Rape and murder of minor girl - Circumstantial evidence - Appreciation of- Standard of proof- Mental distance between 'may be' and 'must be' - Held: Suspicion, however grave, cannot take the place of proof-Large difference between something that 'may be' proved, and something that 'will be proved' - Vital distance between mere conjectures and sure conclusions - The court must draw an inference with respect to whether the chain of circumstances is complete, and when the circumstances therein are collectively considered, the same must lead only to the

Authorities it was built on

1984 Sharad Birdhi Chand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra cited by 133
2010 Babu v. State of Kerala cited by 19
2010 Bipin Kumar Mondal v. State of West Bengal cited by 16
2010 Paramjeet Singh @ Pamma v. State of Uttarakhand cited by 12
2012 Ramesh Harijan v. State of U.P. cited by 11
2005 State of M.P. through C.B.I. Etc. v. Paltan Mallah and Ors. Etc. cited by 10
2011 Sk. Yusuf v. State of West Bengal cited by 10
2011 State through C.B.I. v. Mahender Singh Dahiya cited by 6
1975 Ram Kumar Pande v. The State of Madhya Pradesh cited by 3
1973 M/s. Kanpur Vanaspati Stores, Kanpur v. The Commissioner of Sales Tax, U.P. Lucknow cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2023 Irfan @ Naka v. The State of Uttar Pradesh relied on
2021 The State of Odisha v. Banabihari Mohapatra and Anr. relied on
2019 Digamber Vaishnav & Anr. v. State of Chhattisgarh Criminal Appeal Nos. 428-430 of 2019 March 05, 2019 relied on
2019 Devi Lal v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2016 Nathiya v. State Rep. by Inspector of Police, Bagayam Police Station, Vellore relied on
2014 Mahamadkhan Nathekhan v. State of Gujarat relied on
2025 Padman Bibhar v. State of Odisha referred to
2023 Sunil v. State of Nct of Delhi referred to
2023 Udayakumar v. State of Tamil Nadu referred to
2023 Pradeep Kumar v. State of Chhattisgarh referred to
2022 Jarnail Singh & Anr v. State of Punjab referred to
2019 Samsul Haque v. The State of Assam referred to
2016 Jose @ Pappachan v. The Sub-lnspector of Police, Koyilandy & Another referred to

Of those, 6 relied on · 7 referred to

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