Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 51 · Decided 22 January 2004
B. Shashikala v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 51 · [2004] 1 S.C.R. 940
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 985/1997
- Decided
- 22 January 2004
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, S.B. SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 299; Evidence Act Section 32
Headnote
Criminal Law: Evidence Act, 1872-Section 32(/)-Dying Declaration-Recording of C in translated form-Statement being recorded by Muns if Magistrate in the presence of a doctor who translated the questions put by the Magistrate into Hindi and translated the answers given by deceased into to be true and correct-Admissibility of-Held, the dying · D declaration was recorded fairly and correctly, and there was no infirmity therein-What was necessary in such situation was working knowledge in Hindi-Munsif Magistrate and the doctor may not be able to speak or write chaste
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