Reddy Sampath Kumar vs State Of Andhra Pradesh on 8 September, 2005
44. It is a cardinal principle of criminal jurisprudence that prosecution is to prove
the guilt of the accused beyond the possibility of any reasonable doubt. It is also a
settled principle that thought there may be an element of truth in the prosecution
story against the accused but considered as a whole there is invariably a long
distance to travel and whole of this distance must be covered by the prosecution by
legal, trustworthy and unimpeachable evidence before an accused can be
convicted. This principle of law has been reiterated by the Hon'ble apex court in the
State v. Sanjay Kumar Jain and Others
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following cases : Sarwan Singh Rattan Singh v. State of Punjab AIR 1957 SC
637; Anil W. Singh v. State of Bihar, (2003) 9 SCC 67; Reddy Sampath W. v.
State of A.P, (2005) 7 SCC 603 and Ramreddy Rajesh Khanna Reddy v. State
of A.P, (2006) 10 SCC 172.