Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 338 · Decided 17 August 1999
Dandu Lakshmi Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 338 · [1999] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 535
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1110/1997
- Decided
- 17 August 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, D.P. MOHAPATRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 302, 34; CrPC Section 162, 161; Evidence Act Section 165
Headnote
B Criminal Trial: Dying declaration-Conviction under Sections 302134 /PC based on such dying declaration-Credibility of-Two dying declarations made by the C deceased against the husband and mother-in-law-Material discrepancy between the two dying declarations regarding the context in which in the hospital-Parents of the deceased, deposed that iwo cousins of the deceased had a score to settle with the appellant on D account of a property dispute and were found in confabulation with the deceased at the hospital-Parents also deposing that the deceased was not mentally sound-Held,
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