Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 169 · Decided 5 March 2024
Naeem v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 169 · [2024] 3 S.C.R. 36
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1978/2022
- Decided
- 5 March 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34, 307
Headnote
Conviction of the appellants-accused for offences punishable u/ss.302 and 34, Penal Code, 1860 based solely on the dying declaration, if justified. Evidence - Dying declaration, sole basis of conviction - Appellants convicted for offences punishable Correctness: Held: Dying declaration can be the sole basis of the conviction if it inspires the full confidence of the court - Court is required to satisfy itself that the deceased was in a fit state of mind at the time of making the statement and that it was not the result of tutoring,
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