Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 475 · Decided 8 July 2024
Lal Mohammad Manjur Ansari v. The State of Gujrat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 475 · [2024] 7 S.C.R. 41
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3524/2023
- Decided
- 8 July 2024
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, UJJAL BHUYAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 302
Headnote
Conviction and sentence of the appellant for offence punishable u/s. 302 IPC, if justified. Evidence - Extra-judicial confession - Dying declaration - Reliance upon, when - Murder case wherein prosecution case based on the evidence the appellant-accused to his employer, and the dying declaration made by the victim to one of the prosecution witness - Though few prosecution witnesses who were eyewitnesses turned hostile, courts below relied upon certain parts of their testimony - High Court disbelieved the
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