Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 504 · Decided 12 August 2010
Amit Kumar & ANR. v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 504 · [2010] 9 S.C.R. 1088
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 62/2006
- Decided
- 12 August 2010
- Bench
- B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, S.S. NIJJAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 302, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302134 - Murder- Conviction by C courts below based on dying declaration and ocular testimony of witnesses - On appeal, held: Conviction was justified - The dying declaration and ocular evidence is reliable - Evidence - Dying Declaration. 0 The two appellants-accused, were prosecuted for commission of offences punishable u/s. 302/34 IPC. The prosecution case was that the appellant-accused (husband of the victim) alongwith his younger brother (another appellant­ accused) his mother (accused since deceased) and his E sister-in-law, set the victim on fire.
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