from the proved facts. In drawing these inferences, the Court must have regard to the common course of natural events and to human conduct and their relation to the facts of the particular case. The Court, therefore, has to consider the effect of proved facts and in deciding the sufficiency of the circumstantial evidence for the purpose of conviction, the Court has to consider the total cumulative effect of all the proved facts, each one of which reinforces the conclusion of guilt and if the combined effect of all these facts taken together is conclusive in establishing the guilt of the accused, the conviction would be justified even though it may be that one or more of these facts by itself or themselves as, or are not decisive. The facts established should be consistent only with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused and should exclude every hypothesis, except one sought to be proved. This will, however, not apply to any extravagant and fanciful hypothesis which the accused may suggest in a given case. Finally, there must be a chain of events so complete as not to leave any reasonable ground for the conclusion consistent with the innocence of the accused and must show that in all human probability the act must have been done by the accused and where various links in a chain are in themselves complete, then a false plea or a false defence may be called into aid only to lend assurance to the Court.
