In Brief
Raju and Suman Devi were convicted of murder under IPC Section 302/34 based on circumstantial evidence that they killed Narendra (Suman Devi's husband). The Supreme Court acquitted them, holding the circumstantial evidence insufficient. The key witness (the deceased's daughter) did not see the accused beating the father or being present when he died; there was no direct evidence of what happened after the deceased went to sleep. The Court held that in circumstantial evidence cases, an unbroken chain must point unerringly to guilt, excluding all other possibilities. Here, the chain was incomplete, making conviction unsustainable. The accused were released."
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