MULAKH RAJ vs SATISH KUMAR .

The Supreme Court reinstated the conviction of the first respondent under Section 302 and Section 201 IPC for the murder of his wife and destruction of evidence. The Court found that the medical evidence, including ante-mortem strangulation and post-mortem burn injuries, conclusively established homicide rather than suicide. The High Court's acquittal was deemed unjustified as the circumstantial evidence sufficiently connected the husband to the crime, and the absence of motive did not break the chain of circumstances linking him to the murder.