Supreme Court of India

Kanhaiya Lal v. State of Rajasthan

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Reported as [2014] 3 S.C.R. 744

Bench T.S. Thakur and C. Nagappan JJ.

Decided 13 March 2014

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid circumstances, it is not possible to sustain the impugned judgment and sentence.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

PENAL CODE, 1860: ss. 302 and 201 - Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Dead body recovered from the well belonging to accused appellant - Appellant and deceased stated to have been last seen together previous night - Witness declared hostile - Held: In the instant case, circumstance of last seen together does 0 not by itself and necessarily lead to the inference that it was appellant who committed the crime - Mere non-explanation on the part of appellant, by itself cannot lead to proof of guilt against him - Motive is not established -Conviction of appellant cannot be maintained merely on

Where later benches applied it

2025 Md. Bani Alam Mazid @ Dhan v. State of Assam relied on
2023 R. Sreenivasa v. State of Karnataka relied on
2019 Digamber Vaishnav & Anr. v. State of Chhattisgarh Criminal Appeal Nos. 428-430 of 2019 March 05, 2019 relied on
2017 Kishore Bhadke v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2025 Padman Bibhar v. State of Odisha referred to
2024 Suresh Chandra Tiwari & Anr. v. State of Uttarakhand referred to
2021 Rahul v. State of Haryana referred to
2017 Anjan Kumar Sarma & Ors. v. State of Assam referred to
2015 Ashok v. State of Maharashtra referred to

Of those, 4 relied on · 5 referred to

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