Case Law Analysis
|Supreme Court of India
Section 302 IPC | Last-Seen Testimony & Forensic Gaps Break Circumstantial Evidence Chain: SC Acquits in Murder Appeal
The Supreme Court ruled that last-seen testimony alone, without corroborating forensic evidence or a complete chain of circumstances, cannot sustain a murder conviction under Section 302 IPC. The judgment underscores that circumstantial evidence must exclude all reasonable hypotheses of innocence to uphold guilt.