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Supreme Court and High Courts judgments on Circumstantial evidence

173 judgments, latest first, from 2018 to 2026. A judgment is listed here when its headnote names this subject: the Supreme Court Reports' own headnote (naming the subject), or an AI-written headnote that was reviewed and approved. A mention in the full text alone does not count.

Boby vs State of Kerala
SC · 12 January 2023
[2023] 1 S.C.R. 335 : 2023 INSC 23
Evidence Act, 1872 – s.27 – Discovery of Fact – Criminal trial – Three accused – Disclosure statement allegedly made by accused no.3-appellant – Recovery of dead body of complainant’s husband – Appreciation of evidence –…
Prem Singh vs State of NCT of Delhi
SC · 2 January 2023
[2023] 5 S.C.R. 800 : 2023 INSC 3
PREM SINGH v. STATE OF NCT OF DELHI (Criminal Appeal No. 01 of 2023) JANUARY 02, 2023 [DINESH MAHESHWARI AND SUDHANSHU DHULIA, JJ.] Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 201 and s.84 – Murder – Disappearance of evidence – Circumsta…
Neeraj Dutta vs State (Govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi)
SC · 15 December 2022
[2022] 5 S.C.R. 104 : 2022 INSC 1280
Prevention of Corruption Act 1988: ss.7 and 13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2) – In the absence of evidence of the complainant (direct/primary, oral/documentary evidence) it is permissible to draw an inferential deduction of culpabili…
Rahul vs State of Delhi Ministry of Home Affairs & Anr.
SC · 7 November 2022
[2022] 9 S.C.R. 1129 : 2022 INSC 1176
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 365, 367, 376(2)(g), 302, 201 & 34 – A girl was kidnapped when she was returning from her job along with her friends – She was raped and killed later on and her body was thrown in open field – FIR…
S. Kaleeswaran vs State by the Inspector of Police Pollachi Town East Police Station, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu
SC · 3 November 2022
[2022] 10 S.C.R. 38 : 2022 INSC 1157
Evidence: Circumstantial Evidence – Appreciation of – Allegation that the appellants along with three others in furtherance of the conspiracy, committed dacoity of a car, murdered its driver and buried the dead body in a…
Ramanand @ Nandlal Bharti vs State of Uttar Pradesh
SC · 13 October 2022
[2022] 5 S.C.R. 162 : 2022 INSC 1075
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 – Prosecution case was that on fateful day, appellant-accused murdered his wife and four children with a sharp cutting weapon while they were sleeping – Motive behind the murder was attributed to…
Subramanya vs State of Karnataka
SC · 13 October 2022
[2022] 14 S.C.R. 828 : 2022 INSC 1083
SUBRAMANYA v. STATE OF KARNATAKA (Criminal Appeal No. 242 of 2022) OCTOBER 13, 2022 [UDAY UMESH LALIT, CJI AND J.B. PARDIWALA, J.] Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 – Evidence Act – ss. 8, 27 & 30 – Motive – Discovery Statement –…
Md. Anowar Hussain vs State of Assam
SC · 13 October 2022
[2022] 18 S.C.R. 721 : 2022 INSC 1079
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 – Circumstantial Evidence – Evidence Act, 1872 – s.106 – Appellant was held guilty of the offence u/s.302 for murder of his wife and was awarded the punishment of imprisonment for life – On appea…
Munikrishna @ Krishna etc. vs State by Ulsoor Ps
SC · 30 September 2022
[2022] 13 S.C.R. 415 : 2022 INSC 1322
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 34 – Constitution of India – Article 20(3) – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.161 – Evidence Act – ss.25, 27 – Murder of old aged person – Circumstantial Evidence – Appellants were convicte…
Chotkau vs State of Uttar Pradesh
SC · 28 September 2022
[2022] 9 S.C.R. 601 : 2022 INSC 1032
Penal Code, 1860: ss.376, 302 – Rape and murder – Conviction for, and death sentence by courts below – Challenged – Held: There were very serious contradictions in the evidence tendered by prosecution witnesses on crucia…
Raju @ Rajendra Prasad vs State of Rajasthan
SC · 19 September 2022
[2022] 7 S.C.R. 241 : 2022 INSC 983
Penal Code – ss.302, 34 – Murder – Circumstantial evidence – As per FIR, the appellants-accused (wife of the deceased and coaccused) had illicit relations – It was further stated that on account of disputes, the accused…
Ram Sharan Chaturvedi vs The State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 25 August 2022
[2022] 11 S.C.R. 1 : 2022 INSC 866
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 201, 380, 435, 457 and 477 rw s. 120B – Theft of cash from the Bank – Criminal conspiracy – Prosecution of three employees of the Bank, for offences of theft of Rs. Six Lakhs from the safe and stron…
Rajbir Singh vs The State of Punjab
SC · 24 August 2022
[2022] 11 S.C.R. 80 : 2022 INSC 858
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 – Death by poisoning alleged – Circumstantial evidence – As per the prosecution, PW-1-informant’s wife died after consuming the milk brought from the appellant, residing in the neighbourhood and…
Ram Niwas vs State of Haryana
SC · 11 August 2022
[2022] 13 S.C.R. 138 : 2022 INSC 818
Evidence – Circumstantial evidence – Completion of chain of evidence – Held: There has to be a chain of evidence so complete so as not to leave any reasonable ground for a conclusion consistent with the innocence of the…
Narcotics Control Bureau vs Mohit Aggarwal
SC · 19 July 2022
[2022] 7 S.C.R. 600 : 2022 INSC 730
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 – ss. 8, 22, 29, 37 and 67 – Post-arrest bail – Not granted – Respondent made statement u/s. 67 NDPS Act and disclosed that he was illegally selling and purchasing the…
Ravi Sharma vs State (Government of NCT of Delhi) and Anr.
SC · 11 July 2022
[2022] 12 S.C.R. 257 : 2022 INSC 699
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.378 – Indian Evidence Act, 1872 – s.27 – FIR was recorded on finding a dead body – PW-2 (brother of deceased) identified the dead body – Statements of both PW-1, father of deceased an…
Manoj Pratap Singh vs The State of Rajasthan
SC · 24 June 2022
[2022] 16 S.C.R. 743 : 2022 INSC 652
Sentence / Sentencing – Death Sentence – Rarest of Rare case – Kidnapping, rape and murder of a seven-and-a-half-year old mentally and physically challenged girl – Case of circumstantial evidence – Trial Court found appe…
Chandrapal vs State of Chhattisgarh (Earlier M.P.)
SC · 27 May 2022
[2022] 3 S.C.R. 366 : 2022 INSC 629
CHANDRAPAL v. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH (EARLIER M.P.) (Criminal Appeal No. 378 of 2015) MAY 27, 2022 [DR. DHANANJAYA Y CHANDRACHUD AND BELA M. TRIVEDI, JJ.] Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 201/34 – Murder – Prosecution case t…
Manoj & Ors. vs State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 20 May 2022
[2022] 9 S.C.R. 452 : 2022 INSC 606
Sentence / Sentencing – Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 397 – Triple murder, in course of robbery – Three accused – Trial Court convicted the accused-appellants u/s. 302 IPC and imposed death penalty on them – High Court conf…
Veerendra vs State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 13 May 2022
[2022] 4 S.C.R. 225 : 2022 INSC 565
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 376A, 376 (2)(i), 302 – POCSO Act – s. 6 – Rape and murder of a minor girl – Prosecution case that appellant-accused had raped and throttled to cause death of victim, who was daughter of appellant’…
Ravinder Singh @ Kaku vs State of Punjab
SC · 4 May 2022
[2022] 4 S.C.R. 589 : 2022 INSC 505
Penal Code,1860: ss. 302 r/w 120B and 364 – Murder and kidnapping – Kidnapping and murder of two minor children – Conviction of the main accused and other co-accused including the mother of the children and imposed death…
Venkatesh @ Chandra & Anr. etc. vs State of Karnataka
SC · 19 April 2022
[2022] 4 S.C.R. 556 : 2022 INSC 1302
Evidence Act, 1872: s.27 – Settled Legal Position – Going by the parameters of s.27 of the Evidence Act, only so much of information which relates distinctly to the facts thereby discovered can be stated to have been pro…
Balram Garg vs Securities and Exchange Board of India
SC · 19 April 2022
[2022] 4 S.C.R. 888 : 2022 INSC 442
SEBI (Prevention of Insider Trading Regulations), 2015 – Regulation 2(1)(d) and 2(1)(f) – Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 – ss.11(2)(g), 11(4), 12A(c), 15G and 15Z – Insider Trading – On receipt of Unpub…
Mohd. Firoz vs State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 19 April 2022
[2022] 19 S.C.R. 168 : 2022 INSC 429
Penal Code, 1860 – Ss. 302, 376(2)(i), 376(2)(m), 363, 366, 376A – Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) – ss. 5 (i), 5 (m), 6 – Evidence Act, 1872 – s. 106 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – ss…
Satye Singh & Another vs State of Uttarakhand
SC · 15 February 2022
[2022] 1 S.C.R. 1137 : 2022 INSC 185
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 34 and 201 – Homicidal death – Circumstantial evidence – Dead body of married woman found in burnt condition in the Chhan (hut) of her husband – Father of the deceased gave written complaint im…
Pappu vs The State of Uttar Pradesh
SC · 9 February 2022
[2022] 2 S.C.R. 13 : 2022 INSC 164
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 376, 302, 201 – Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act 2012 – ss. 5, 6 – Circumstantial Evidence – Prosecution case was that appellant enticed a seven year old girl to accompany him on the…
Ishwarji Nagaji Mali vs State of Gujarat and Another
SC · 18 January 2022
[2022] 2 S.C.R. 694 : 2022 INSC 57
Code of Criminal Procedure – s.439 – Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 302, 120B, 114 – Bail – Grant of, when not proper – FIR was lodged against unknown persons initially for offences punishable u/s.304A, IPC and ss.177, 184 & 134…
Bhagwani vs The State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 18 January 2022
[2022] 8 S.C.R. 1 : 2022 INSC 52
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.363, 366A, 364, 346, 376D, 376A, 302 and 201 – Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 – s.5(g)(m) r/w s.6 – Kidnapping, rape and murder of 11 year old girl – Circumstantial evidence –…
Rajesh Prasad vs The State of Bihar and Anr. etc.
SC · 7 January 2022
[2022] 3 S.C.R. 1046 : 2022 INSC 19
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302/34, 120B – Explosive Substances Act, 1908 – ss. 3, 4 – In the instant case, the accused-respondent committed offence u/s 302 r/w 34 and 120B IPC by causing death of father of appellant-informant…
Parvati Devi vs The State of Bihar Now State of Jharkhand & Ors.
SC · 17 December 2021
[2021] 9 S.C.R. 711 : 2021 INSC 911
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 304B and 201 r/w s. 34 – Dowry death – Prosecution case was that the victim-deceased daughter of informant (PW-3) was married to A-1 – Within few months of marriage, A-1, his father (A-2) and his mo…

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