Circumstantial evidence
Penal Code, 1860 (IPC), Section 302 – Circumstantial evidence – Murder of wife at the advanced stage of pregnancy – Homicidal violence – The present case squarely rests on circumstantial evidence where the death has been caused by homicidal violence and the appellant who had himself taken the deceased to the hospital and made a false statement to the Doctor that she had suffered a cardiac arrest which was found to be false after the postmortem report was received and the nature of injuries which were attributed on the body of the deceased of which a reference has been made clearly establish that it is the case where none other than the accused appellant has committed a commission of crime with intention to commit the murder of his own wife who was at the advanced stage of pregnancy – Criminal trial .
