SUPREME COURT OF INDIA while deciding the Criminal Appeal No. 85 of 2003, on 16/04/2009, in re: STATE OF RAJASTHAN vs MOHAN LAL made the following observations: -

QUOTE : Doubts would be called reasonable if they are free from a zest for abstract speculation. Law cannot afford any favourite other than truth. To constitute reasonable doubt, it must be free from an overemotional response. Doubts must be actual and substantial doubts as to the guilt of the accused persons arising from the evidence, or from the lack of it, as opposed to mere vague apprehensions. A reasonable doubt is not an imaginary, trivial or a merely possible doubt, but a fair doubt based upon reason and common sense. It must grow out of the evidence in the case.

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