Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 590 · Decided 30 April 2019
Kalabai v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 590 · [2019] 8 S.C.R. 19
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 763/2019
- Decided
- 30 April 2019
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, K.M. JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 302, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 304 Part II and 302 - Murder - Dying declaration - On facts, quarrel between the victim and her husband and during the quarrel, appellant-sister-in-law who was living on the lower floor of the house arrived at the scene - She threw the burning kerosene death - Conviction and sentence of the appellant u/s. 302 by the courts below - On appeal, held: Dying declaration recorded within few hours of admission of the victim in the hospital was relied by the courts below, wherein the victim stated as to how she was burned - There is no
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