Recently, Jharkhand HC ruled that, when an accused has to rebut the presumption under section 139, the standard of proof for doing so is that of ‘preponderance of probabilities.’ The bench of Justice Deepak Roshan opined that if the accused is able to raise a probable defence which creates doubt about the existence of a
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