https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282930 Section 227 CrPC permits discharge where the material, even if accepted at face value, does not disclose sufficient ground to proceed. In a conspiracy prosecution, the alleged agreement may be inferred from circumstances, but those circumstances must form a complete chain and cannot rest on suspicion or motive alone. On the facts, the prosecution relied on circumstantial material such as alleged threats and the deceased's prior relationship with a co-accused, but several co-accused had already been discharged on the same foundation and the State's challenge to that discharge had failed. In that setting, no sufficient ground survived to continue the case against the appellant, and the refusal to discharge was unsustainable. en-us Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 10:47:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282930 Section 227 CrPC permits discharge where the material, even if accepted at face value, does not disclose sufficient ground to proceed. In a conspiracy prosecution, the alleged agreement may be inferred from circumstances, but those circumstances must form a complete chain and cannot rest on suspicion or motive alone. On the facts, the prosecution relied on circumstantial material such as alleged threats and the deceased's prior relationship with a co-accused, but several co-accused had already been discharged on the same foundation and the State's challenge to that discharge had failed. In that setting, no sufficient ground survived to continue the case against the appellant, and the refusal to discharge was unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282930