https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169432 For liability under section 201 IPC, the prosecution must affirmatively prove that an offence was committed, that the accused knew or had reason to believe it was committed, and that evidence was removed with intent to screen the offender. A statement read as a whole was treated as exculpatory because it attributed the death to accident and did not admit any offence; it was therefore not a confession and could not be relied on piecemeal for its inculpatory parts absent proof that the exculpatory portion was false. Suspicion and incomplete circumstantial evidence, including disposal of the body, were insufficient to prove death by poisoning beyond reasonable doubt. en-us Wed, 22 Oct 1952 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:29:28 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169432 For liability under section 201 IPC, the prosecution must affirmatively prove that an offence was committed, that the accused knew or had reason to believe it was committed, and that evidence was removed with intent to screen the offender. A statement read as a whole was treated as exculpatory because it attributed the death to accident and did not admit any offence; it was therefore not a confession and could not be relied on piecemeal for its inculpatory parts absent proof that the exculpatory portion was false. Suspicion and incomplete circumstantial evidence, including disposal of the body, were insufficient to prove death by poisoning beyond reasonable doubt. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 22 Oct 1952 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169432