Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 798 · Decided 1 August 2007
Mehiboobsab Abbasabi Nadaf v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 798 · [2007] 8 S.C.R. 713
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 130/2006
- Decided
- 1 August 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 302, 34; Evidence Act
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860: s.302134-Death of a woman allegedly caused by her husband and parents-in-law by setting her ablaze-Four dying declarations of deceased C recorded-High Court acquitting parents-in-ldw by giving them benefit of doubt but maintaining conviction of husband-Held, conviction can and truthfully-Consistency in dying declaration is relevant factor for placing full reliance thereupon-On facts, D deceased had taken contradictory and inconsistent stand in different dying declarations-Keeping in view the fact that in two of the dying declarations she attributed the acts
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