Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 489 · Decided 23 July 2013
Kaliya v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 489 · [2013] 7 S.C.R. 760
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 228/2008
- Decided
- 23 July 2013
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, S.A. BOBDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 498; Evidence Act Section 63, 65
Headnote
. . PENAL CODE, 1860: c s. 302- Married woman· burnt alive by her mother-in~law (appellant) - Conviction and sentence oflife imprisonment - Held: In the dying declaration recorded by the doctor, the deceased stated that her mother-in-law.poured kerosene on her and set her on fire - Carbon by trial court as secondary evidence - No objection was raised at that time - As the incident occurred in the house of appellant, and she was present therein at the relevant time, she could have furnished the explanation as to how and under what circumstances the· victim died - The matter
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