Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 210 · Decided 17 April 2002
Dharmendrasinh @ Mansing Ratansinh v. Stte of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 210 · [2002] 3 S.C.R. 193
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 927/2001
- Decided
- 17 April 2002
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, BRIJESH KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 154
Headnote
B Penal Code, I 860 : Section 302: Murder-Husband suspecting fidelity of wife-Committing murder of his two sons-Testimony of wife-Vivid description of occurrence given by C her-Prosecution case established by cogent evidence on record-Held, reliance on her testimony despite minor Contradiction and do not fall in the category of rarest of rare cases-Death penalty substituted with imprisonment for life. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 : Section 154. FIR-Contradiction in lodging of-Effect. Maxim Falsus in Uno Falsus in omnibus-Applicability of D E The appellant was prosecuted under Section
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