Failure To Recover Dead Body By Itself Doesn't Entitle Accused To Benefit Of Doubt: SC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

22 July 2019 6:24 PM IST

"It is not an invariable rule of criminal jurisprudence that the failure of the police to recover the corpus delecti will render the prosecution case doubtful entitling the accused to acquittal on benefit of doubt."

The Supreme Court has observed that the failure of the police to recover the corpus delecti will not by itself render the prosecution case doubtful entitling the accused to acquittal on benefit of doubt.It is only one of the relevant factors to be considered along with all other attendant facts and circumstances to arrive at a finding based on...

Failure To Recover Dead Body By Itself Doesn't Entitle Accused To Benefit Of Doubt: SC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

"It is not an invariable rule of criminal jurisprudence that the failure of the police to recover the corpus delecti will render the prosecution case doubtful entitling the accused to acquittal on benefit of doubt."

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