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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
P.VELMURUGAN, M.JOTHIRAMAN
Rajendran – Appellant
Versus
State, represented by The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Gingee Division, Representing Sathyamangalam Police Station – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
P.VELMURUGAN, J.
This criminal appeal has been filed by A1 & A2 to set aside the judgment of conviction and sentence passed against them in Spl.S.C.No.73 of 2016 dated 16.09.2019 by the learned Sessions Judge, Special Court for SC/ST Act Cases, Villupuram.
2 The case of the prosecution is that the deceased Mani on 06.02.2014 watered the land, which was cultivated by him and on the next day early morning at about 4.00 a.m. while he went to water the same land, died due to electrocution, since A1 erected an iron fencing giving electric connection from the pump set belonged to A2. On the next day when P.W.1 woke up, her husband was not at the home and at about 8.30 a.m. P.W.8 Nagaraj called her and told that her husband died in the canal near the land belonged to A1 Rajendiran. P.W.1 went to the place of occurrence and there she saw that the first appellant/A1 erected iron fencing and given electric connection from the Pumpset belonged to the second appellant/A2 and the deceased died due to electric shock. Therefore P.W.1 made complaint before the Sathiyamangalam Police Station, Sathiyamangalam, Gingee, which was marked as Ex.P1.
2.1 On receipt of the complaint Ex.P1, P.W.19, t
Circumstantial evidence can corroborate a conviction even without eyewitnesses, provided it forms a continuous chain and the accused fails to counter it effectively.
The court determined that insufficient evidence existed to justify the conviction for death due to electrocution, emphasizing the prosecution's failure in proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Proving direct causation is essential in establishing liability under Section 304-A IPC for criminal negligence.
criminal justice delivery system the appreciation of evidence it is vested with the trial Court as under Section 3 of the Indian Evidence Act
The court established that circumstantial evidence and extrajudicial confessions can suffice for conviction when they form a complete chain pointing to the accused's guilt.
The principle that an accused cannot be convicted based on suspicion alone, and the prosecution must prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt, especially in cases relying on circumstantial evidence.
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