Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 1142 · Decided 4 October 1996
Kumbhar Dhirajlal Mohanlal v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 1142 · [1996] SUPP. 7 S.C.R. 177
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 726/1992
- Decided
- 4 October 1996
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, S.P. KURDUKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Evidence Act Section 32
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860-Sectiolt 302--- Uxoricide---Accused--Husband, set- ting his wife on fire-Acquittal by Trial Court-Reversal of acquittal order and conviction by High Court-Dying declaration by deceased before Doctor and Executive Magistrate, found reliable and made in conscious and fit state of death-Appellant sustained injuries while extinguishing the fire, does not lead to the inference that fire was accidental-Conviction upheld. Evidence Act, 1872---Section 32-:Dying declaration-Before Doctor D and the Executive Magistrate-Medical Certificate that at the material time the
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