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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
M.S. RAMESH, C.KUMARAPPAN
Aravindan – Appellant
Versus
State rep. by The Inspector of Police, Dharmapuri Police Station Dharmapuri District – Respondent
JUDGMENT
C.KUMARAPPAN, J.
The present criminal appeal is arising out of the order of conviction passed against the appellant herein in S.C.No.69 of 2017 dated 28.03.2019 under Section 302 IPC.
2. The prosecution case is that the deceased Chinnasamy and accused Aravindan are distantly related. It is the further case of prosecution that the accused Aravindan nurtured enmity and vengeance against the deceased Chinnasamy as he believed that his father was done away by the deceased. Owing to this unquenched anger and long drawn enmity, on 13.06.2016, the accused, who was under the influence of alcohol, picked up wordy quarrel with the deceased near the Sawalur bridge, and killed him by hitting with stone and fled away from the scene of occurrence.
3. While so, on knowing the death of the deceased, his son P.W.1-Madhu, rushed to the scene of occurrence and then went to the police station, and gave a complaint. The Sub-Inspector of Police PW6 -Srinivasan, on receipt of the same, on 13.06.2016 at 10.00pm, registered an FIR in Crime No.406 of 2016 under Section 302 IPC. Thereafter, he forwarded the same to the concerned jurisdictional Magistrate and to the investigating Officer PW17-Gandhi.
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In murder cases based on circumstantial evidence, each link must be established beyond reasonable doubt, with all evidence consistently pointing to the guilt of the accused.
In circumstantial evidence cases, each link in the evidence chain must establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt, supported by all proving consistent guilt without alternative explanations.
Conviction based on circumstantial evidence requires a complete and cogent chain of circumstances; extra-judicial confessions must be corroborated by reliable evidence.
Circumstantial evidence must form a complete chain pointing to guilt, and extrajudicial confessions require corroboration to be credible.
Circumstantial evidence must form a complete chain pointing to guilt, with the prosecution required to establish every link beyond reasonable doubt.
Conviction based solely on circumstantial evidence requires a complete and coherent chain of events that excludes all reasonable hypotheses of innocence.
The prosecution must prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt; reliance on circumstantial evidence requires an unbroken chain linking the accused to the crime.
In criminal cases based on circumstantial evidence, the prosecution must establish a complete and unbroken chain of evidence to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
Circumstantial evidence must form a complete chain pointing to guilt, and extrajudicial confessions require corroboration to be reliable.
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