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circumstantial evidence All judicial evidence is either direct or circumstantial. Evidence is direct when the principal fact is proved directly by witness or documents. When it is proved by circumstances, the evidence is indirect and called circumstantial evidence. And the latter may be of two kinds-conclusive and presumptive. Circumstantial evidence is evidence that tends to prove a fact by proving other events or circumstances which afford a basis for a reasonable inference of the occurrence of the fact at issue or otherwise. |