In Brief
The appellant was convicted of murdering his wife under Section 302 IPC and sentenced to life imprisonment. He appealed, claiming she died by suicide through poison consumption. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, finding that the chain of circumstantial evidence was complete and unbroken. Post-mortem evidence revealed violent asphyxial death by smothering, with ante-mortem injuries (nail marks on cheeks, throat, and wrists) contradicting the suicide theory. The appellant's own admission of producing the poison bottle and being present at the scene further established guilt. The Court held that these circumstances, individually and collectively, ruled out any reasonable likelihood of innocence, establishing guilt beyond reasonable doubt despite the absence of eyewitnesses.
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