Discussion
The five Golden Principles with respect to Circumstantial Evidence were laid down in which Supreme Court Judgment ?
Answer: A
The principles were laid down in Sharad Birdhichand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra (1984).
Deciding a murder case resting wholly on circumstantial evidence, the Supreme Court set out five conditions, which it called the 'panchsheel' of proof: the circumstances must be fully established; they must be consistent only with the hypothesis of guilt; they must be of a conclusive nature and tendency; they must exclude every hypothesis except the one to be proved; and the chain of evidence must be so complete as to leave no reasonable ground for a conclusion consistent with innocence.
Courts cite Sharad Birdhichand Sarda as the source of the five-point test. The other three judgments are not the decision that formulated it.
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