Setting aside the concurrent convictions rendered by the trial court and the Orissa High Court, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justice M.M. Sundresh and Justice Prasanna B. Varale held that an accused cannot be convicted on circumstantial evidence unless every incriminating link is individually proved and cumulatively forms an unbroken chain excluding every hypothesis of
Identification In Pitch-Dark Night By Sound Of Assault Unreliable, Chain Of Circumstances Must Be Complete: Supreme Court Acquits Murder Accused
