Why Should a Judge Care About a Wheel? Picture a bicycle wheel. In the centre sits a hub. Radiating outward are the spokes. Holding it a...

 In trials of homicide based on circumstantial evidence, the real battleground often lies not in direct testimony but in medical jurispruden...

It is trite law in the cases of circumstantial evidence when the chain of circumstances have been adequately proved to link to the culpabili...

The learned Trial Court also considered the statement of the Accused Under Section 313 of Code of Criminal Procedure which needless to state...

7. As noticed earlier the only incriminating circumstance on the basis of which the High Court upheld the conviction of Mohd. Aman is that h...

We find that the conviction on the basis of such evidence cannot be sustained. Apart from that, it is to be noted that even according to PW-...

  Circumstance Six: Test Identification Parade 38. The investigating authorities conducted a test identification parade - asking PW-5 to ide...

 This lack of a common procedure to be followed, is concerning. As such, we issue the following directions which shall be followed hencefort...

 Last seen theory means that if the accused was last seen in the company of the deceased, and the time gap between that point and the death ...

 By considering the oral evidence on record and taking into consideration the post-mortem report, the Appellant was convicted for the offenc...

(viii) The prosecution case mainly rested upon the deposition given by PW-5 so-called eye-witness as well as on the basis of circumstantial ...

Question 1: Basic Concept and Definition Q: What do you understand by crime scene recreation? How does it differ from crime scene re-enactm...

    Introduction The intersection of digital privacy rights and matrimonial law has become a critical area of jurisprudence in contemporar...

  Whether   the fact that prosecution   case   rests   on   circumstantial   evidence   can   be   a   valid ground to release the accused o...

   The court concludes that last seen theory, extrajudicial confession is not proved.  Recovery of weapon under section 27 proved and court ...

 The offence of criminal conspiracy can be proved by either direct or circumstantial evidence . However, conspiracy is usually hatched in a...

  Sentence : 32.  The Trial Court has imposed the sentence of death and the High Court has confirmed the same. It is time for us to draw up ...

  The argument of Ms. Uttara Babbar, learned senior counsel is that no DNA test was carried out. No doubt, the DNA test was not carried out ...

  Circumstance No. 5 : Matching of Blood Group 25.  Blood group on the clothes of the deceased tallied with the blood group of the accused a...

Circumstance No. 4 : Conduct under Section 8 of the Evidence Act: 24.  Irrespective of the admissibility of the discovery, panchnama (Exh.18...