Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 824 · Decided 26 November 2010
Chirra Shivraj v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 824 · [2010] 15 S.C.R. 673
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 514/2010
- Decided
- 26 November 2010
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, ANIL R. DAVE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 307, 302
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 304 Part fl - Death due to burn injuries - Deceased had strained family relations with the accused-appellant, her brother-in-law - She made a dying C declaration before a Judicial Officer - Conviction by courts· below on the sole basis of the dying declaration - declaration was trustworthy and reliable and it was supported by the complaint - The declaration was scrupulously recorded by the Judicial Officer D who had found the deceased to be conscious and fit to make statement - In the circumstances of the case, merely because a second FIR was filed,
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