Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 690 · Decided 5 May 2009
Bawa Ram & ANR. v. State of U.T. Chandigarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 690 · [2009] 7 S.C.R. 591
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 988/2007
- Decided
- 5 May 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
- "1 Penal Code, 1860: S. 302 r. w. S. 34 - Conviction by courts below based on dying declaration - Parents and relatives of deceased who were stated to have witnessed the incident, resi/ed from statement made during investigation and c deposed to the effect that deceased was of unsound mfnd : In peculiar facts of the case, conviction is set aside. Prosecution case was that there was a previou$ D enmity between the deceased and accused persons due to whi~h accused persons poured kerosene on deceased. The incident was witnessed by the father, mother and uncle of the deceased. During
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)