Judges To Tread Cautiously In Circumstantial Evidence, Can\’t Allow Conjectures & Suspicion To Take Place Of Proof: Telangana High Court

\”The Telangana High Court has reiterated that circumstantial evidence is a weak form of evidence and the conviction of an accused cannot be solely based on circumstantial evidence unless the chain of evidence leaves no other conclusion except accused\’s guilt.

It further held that to decide whether the chain of evidence pertaining to circumstantial evidence is complete, every hypothesis but the one supposed to be proved must be excluded.\”

Judgment: Janapally Anjilaiah v. The State of A.P.

Source: www.livelaw.in