Supreme Court · 1978 INSC 174 · Decided 14 September 1978
Jaswant Singh v. State (Delhi ADMN.)
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1978 INSC 174 · [1979] 1 S.C.R. 777
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 346/1974
- Decided
- 14 September 1978
- Bench
- JASWANT SINGH, P.S. KAILASAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Evidr11cc-Circun1stantial evidence, value of, in sustaining co1n·iction-Dying <leclaration not recorded by a Magistrate 1nusf be scrutinised closely. The appellant stood charged for trial under s. 302 of the I.P.C. for having ·caused the death of his wife by sprinkling kerosene which was corroborated by the circumstantial evidence of the narration about the incident by the deceased to her parents PW-I and PW-2 just before her death, tound him guilty of the offence with which he was charged and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The appeal preferred by the
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