Supreme Court of India

Shailendra Rajdev Pasvan and Others v. State of Gujarat Etc.

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Reported as [2019] 14 S.C.R. 270

Bench N. V. Ramana, Sanjiv Khanna and Krishna Murari JJ.

Decided 13 December 2019

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that evidence adduced against the appellants do not form the complete chain connecting them with the cri me and the prosecution has failed to prove the guilt beyond doubt.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – ss.120- , 302, 363, 364, 364- , 365 – Case based on circumstantial evidence – Approach of the Cour ts – Case of the prosecution that on 4 th Feb. 2001, as per routine, the complainant-PW-1 left for work at 8:00 am and returne d at 2:00 pm for lunch, when he noticed that his son aged about 9 years wa s missing – PW-1 pointed out that initially appellant -accused no.1 joined the search but thereafter suddenly vanished – Upon returning, allegedly, he made an extra-judicial con fession confessing that he kidnapped PW-1’s son at the behes t of accused no.5, who had animosity

Authorities it was built on

1984 Sharad Birdhi Chand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra cited by 133
2007 Chandrappa and Ors. v. State of Karnataka cited by 45
2012 Sahadevan & Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu cited by 22
2002 Bodh Raj @ Bodha and Ors. v. State of Jammu and Kashmir cited by 16
2011 Pancho v. State of Haryana cited by 13
2012 Jagroop Singh v. State of Punjab cited by 4
2016 Rambraksh @ Jalim v. State of Chhattisgarh cited by 3
1987 Tota Singh & Anr. v. State of Punjab cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2023 R. Sreenivasa v. State of Karnataka referred to
2023 Indrajit Das v. The State of Tripura referred to
2023 Indrakunwar v. The State of Chhattisgarh mentioned
2023 Prakash Nishad @ Kewat Zinak Nishad v. State of Maharashtra mentioned

Of those, 2 referred to · 2 mentioned

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