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the prosecution must establish a chain of unbroken events unerringly pointing
to the guilt of the accused and none other [See C. Chenga Reddy and others
vs. State of A.P 1 , Ramreddy Rajesh Khanna Reddy vs. State of A.P. 2 ,
Majenderan Langeswaran vs. State (NCT of Delhi) and another 3 and
Sharad Birdhichand Sarda vs. State of Maharashtra4]. As long back as in
the year 1952, in Hanumant vs. State of Madhya Pradesh5, a 3-Judge Bench
of this Court observed as under:
‘It is well to remember that in cases where the evidence is of a circumstantial
nature, the circumstances from which the conclusion of guilt is to be drawn
should in the first instance be fully established, and all the facts so established
should be consistent only with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused. Again,
the circumstances should be of a conclusive nature and tendency and they
should be such as to exclude every hypothesis but the one proposed to be
proved. In other words, there must be a chain of evidence so far complete as
not to leave any reasonable ground for a conclusion consistent with the innocence of the accused and it must be such as to show that within all human
probability the act must have been done by the accused.’
1
(1996) 10 SCC 193
(2006) 10 SCC 172
3
(2013) 7 SCC 192
4
(1984) 4 SCC 116
5
(1952) 2 SCC 71
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