مشروعيت به كارگيري قراين در اثبات جرم از منظر فقه جزايي

The Legality of Recourse to Circumstantial Evidence in Islamic Penal Law

Evidence plays a basic role in judicial process. This is because evidence proves the rights which exist in reality. But evidence, like other parts of the proceedings and like the crime itself, has gone through changes and development. In contemporary period, this kind of evidence is referred to as "scientific evidence". This paper tries to examine and analyze the validity of scientific evidence from the viewpoint of Islamic Penal Law.