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Tavade and Ranjit More, JJ., while dealing with a case in regard to homicidal death upheld the decision of the trial court which was in challenge before the Bench.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the present case, appellant preferred the appeal against the Judgment passed by Additional Sessions Judge wherein the appellant was charged for the offence punishable under Section 302 of Penal Code, 1860.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Informant who was the brother-in-law of the deceased had given his two-wheeler to the deceased on his request as he had to visit the appellant\u2019s factory. Deceased had informed the informant that he would return back within a short period. But on failure of his return, informant inquired the workers of the factory about the deceased\u2019s visit and came to know that the deceased did not visit the factory that evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later on the next day of the said event, the informant received a call from appellant\u2019s father-in-law who further informed him that appellant had killed Zuber (deceased) and had locked the shutter of his factory. On receiving the said information, informant enquired the same with the accused who confessed the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thereafter, informant took the appellant to the Police Station and further appellant took the police to the factory where he had killed Zuber and directed towards his dead body. Appellant was arrested and after the completion of trial was punished under Section 302 IPC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trial Court relied on the extra-judicial confessions along with the circumstantial evidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Contentions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Advocate Subhash Jha, represented the appellant and submitted that extra-judicial confession is a weak type of evidence. To corroborate the extra-judicial confession no other circumstances were proved. The entire prosecution case was based on circumstantial evidence. Hence he prayed for acquittal for the appellant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">J.P. Yagnik, APP for the Respondent-State, submitted that, Subsequent conduct of the appellant of showing remorse for his acts and all the other facts stated above supported the extra-judicial confession.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For a crime to be proved, it is not necessary that the crime must be seen to have been committed and must in all circumstances to be proved by direct, ocular evidence, by examining before the Court those persons who had seen its commission. Thus offence can be proved by circumstantial evidence also.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reference to the decision in <em>Sharad Birdhi Chand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/FL6d5497\">(1984) 4 SCC 116<\/a> was made, wherein while dealing with circumstantial evidence it was held that, onus was on the prosecution to prove that the chain is complete and the infirmity of lacuna in the prosecution cannot be cured by a false defense or plea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another significant point to be noted in the present case, medical officer categorically opined that death is not due to strangulation, but by throttling; so there is no doubt regarding the cause of death of the deceased. Thus it rightly proved the homicidal death of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court on perusal of the facts and circumstances of the case noted that prosecution established the homicidal death of the deceased. 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