Indian Evidence Act

Question 1

Circumstantial Evidence: 4 rules laid down in:

Answer 1

1. Umedbhai Jadavbhai v. State of Gujarat 1978
2. State of U.P. v. Ravindra Prakash Mittal 1992
3. Ganapati Singh v. State of M.P.

Question 2

What are the 4 rules for circumstantial evidences?

Answer 2

1. The circumstances from which an inference of guilt is drawn must be Cogently and firmly established
2. Those circumstances should be definite and unerringly point towards the guilt of the accused
3. Circumstances should form a chain so complete that there is no escape from the conclusion that within all human possibility the crime was committed by the accused
4. Such circumstances should be incapable of any hypothesis other than the guilt of the accused and it should be inconsistent with the innocence of the accused

Question 3

Statements in affidavit do not constitute Evidence within section 3

Answer 3

Sudha devi v. M.P. Narayanan 1988

Question 4

Evidence of tracker dog

Answer 4

Abdul razak v. State 1970

Question 5

Electronic Evidence

Answer 5

Section 2(1)(f) Information Technology Act 2000

Question 6

Section 65B compliances cases

Answer 6

Anvar P.V. v. P.k. Basheer 2014
Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal 2020

Question 7

Evidence in departmental inquiry

Answer 7

SBI v. National housing bank 2013

Question 8

Evidence obtained in other investigation

Answer 8

Ronny v. State of Maharashtra 1998

Question 9

Illegally obtained evidence

Answer 9

Umesh Kumar v. State of A.P.

Question 10

FIR as evidence- not a substantive piece of evidence

Answer 10

Utpal Das v. State of West Bengal 2010

Question 11

Evidence can be given by a way of electronic records

Answer 11

State of Maharashtra v. Praful B. Desai 2003

Question 12

Appreciation of evidence- analysis of evidence by the court to ascertain reliability and genuineness of the evidence

Answer 12

Ganesh K. Gulve v. State of Maharashtra 2002
R. Jayapal v. State of Tamil Nadu 2019

Question 13

Falsus in uno. Falsus in omnibus

Answer 13

Kameshwar singh v. State of bihar 2018
Mahendran v. State of Tamil Nadu 2019

Question 14

Proved- as per reasonable man

Answer 14

M. Narsimha Rao v. State of A.P. 2001

Question 15

Disproved- as per the belief of court,probability or prudent man

Answer 15

Chaturbhiug Pandey v. Collector of Raigad 1969

Question 16

Proof is effect of evidence

Answer 16

State of West Bengal v. Orilal Jaiswal 1994

Question 17

Standard of proof

Answer 17

Ashish batham v. State of M.P. 2002
Mousam Singha Roy v. State of West Bengal 2003