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PETITIONER: PALVINDER KAUR
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE OF PUNJAB(RUP SINGH-Caveator)
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 22/10/1952
BENCH: MAHAJAN, MEHR CHAND BENCH: MAHAJAN, MEHR CHAND AIYAR, N. CHANDRASEKHARA BHAGWATI, NATWARLAL H.
CITATION: 1952 AIR 354 1952 SCR 94 CITATOR INFO : A 1960 SC 409 (8) RF 1965 SC1413 (5,13) R 1966 SC 119 (12) F 1968 SC 829 (6) D 1969 SC 422 (19,21) R 1972 SC 66 (12,13) D 1975 SC1925 (42,43,44) F 1976 SC1167 (15) RF 1976 SC1797 (6) R 1979 SC 154 (42) R 1979 SC 826 (22) R 1990 SC 79 (19)
ACT: Criminal trial-Circumstantial evidence-Duty of courts to safeguard themselves against basing decision suspicions- ConfesSion’-Must be accepted or rejected as a whole-Self exculpatory statement containing admission of incriminating facts-Admission of incriminating portion as true rejecting exculpatory portion as false -Legality-Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 201-Essential ingredients of offence.
HEADNOTE: In eases depending circumstantial evidence courts should safeguard themselves against the danger of basing _their conclusions suspicions howsoever strong. Rex V. Hodge (1838) 2 Lew. 227, and Nargundkar v. State of Madhya Pradesh (1952) S.C.R. 1091 referred to, 95 To establish a charge under s. 2...