Reasonable Hypothesis - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Reasonable hypothesis, before a person can be con-victed on the strength of circumstantial evidence, the circumstances in question must be satisfactorily established and the proved circumstances must bring home the offence to the accused beyond reasonable doubt. If those circumstances or some of them can be explained by any other reasonable hypothesis then the accused must have the benefit of that hypothesis. But in assessing the evidence imaginary possibilities have no place. What is to be considered are ordinary human probabilities, Awadhi Yadav v. State of Bihar, AIR 1971 SC 69 (70): (1971) 3 SCC 116....
Hypothetic
Characterized by or of the nature of an hypothesis conditional assumed without proof for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon...
Shadow of doubt
Shadow of doubt, in its practical application in circumstantial evidence, the test which requires the exclusion of other alternative hypothesis is far more rigorous than the test of proof beyond reasonable doubt, Shankarlal G. Dixit v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1981 SC 765: (1981) 2 SCC 35: (1981) Cr LJ 325....
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