Supreme Court: Under which circumstances the court can convict accused based on call detail records and location data of the mobile numbers used by accused?

 The call detail records further amplify the incriminating previous conduct of A1 on the date of incident. The records reveal that A1 was in constant touch with A2, A3 and A5 before the incident. Further, A3, A4 and A5 were in constant touch with each other. The prosecution has relied upon a chart prepared on the basis of the call detail records of the accused persons and it indicates that all the accused persons were in contact with each other. Even without this chart, the call records are quite clear. To add to it, the location data of the mobile numbers used by the accused persons reveals that all the accused persons were present around the restaurant at the time of the incident. Furthermore, the location of A3 to A6 was also traceable at the same spot where the deceased was found in the Honda Accord car at around 12:05 AM after the incident. In such circumstances, the courts have drawn a reasonable inference that the accused persons were acting in a coordinated manner and had an overwhelming nexus with the offence. 

{Para 17}

 In the Supreme Court of India

(Before Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma, JJ.)

Criminal Appeal No(s). 3866 of 2025

Piyush Shyamdasani  Vs State of Uttar Pradesh 

Decided on July 20, 2026

Citation: 2026 SCC OnLine SC 1357. Read full judgment here: Click here.

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