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SC slams ‘pedantic’ use of burden-of-proof rule
Hindustan Times Gurugram
|October 22, 2025
The Supreme Court has held that the traditional rule relating to the prosecution’s burden of proof in criminal cases cannot be applied in a “pedantic” manner, cautioning that such rigidity would allow offenders in serious offences to go unpunished while society becomes the casualty.
A bench of justices Sanjay Kumar and Alok Aradhe made the observa~
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