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Md. Bani Alam Mazid @ Dhan v. State of Assam

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Reported as [2025] 2 S.C.R. 2006
Bench Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan JJ.
Decided 24 February 2025

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What the Court ordered

Held as under: 16. …….As we know, circumstantial evidence is not direct to the point in issue but consists of evidence of various other facts which are so closely associated with the fact in issue that taken together, they form a chain of circumstances from which the existence of the principal fact can be legally inferred or presumed.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration In a case where the appellant alongwith a co-accused was alleged to have kidnapped and murdered the minor daughter of PW1, the issues for consideration were: (i) Whether the chain of circumstantial evidence based on which the High Court convicted the Appellant was complete; (ii) Whether the circumstance of last seen together can be made the basis of conviction; (iii) Whether the circumstance of recovery of the dead body following the Appellant’s statement was proof beyond reasonable doubt against the Appellant; (iv) Whether motive is an important link in a case based

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