The Supreme Court ruled that a accused cannot be convicted based solely on circumstantial evidence. It further stated that the present matter was clearly a case built entirely on circumstantial evidence.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India has ruled that advocates are not required to verify whether a power of attorney (PoA) given to them by a litigant is genuine. This decision was made by a bench comprising Justices AS Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, who clarified that lawyers should only check the document’s authenticity if they have valid reasons to doubt it.
