Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 159 · Decided 8 March 2021
Nagabhushan v. The State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 159 · [2021] 2 S.C.R. 595
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 443/2020
- Decided
- 8 March 2021
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, M.R. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 300(fourthly), 300, 302; CrPC Section 378
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860 - s.300(fourthly); ss.498A, 302 r/w 34 - Dowry death - Dying declaration - Accused persons acquitted by trial Court - Acquittal of appellant-accused reversed by High Court - On appeal, held: There are two dying declarations, Exhibit P5 has been proved that the deceased was set ablaze by pouring kerosene on her - Prosecution is successful in proving that the appellant poured kerosene on the deceased - Act of the accused falls in clause fourthly of s.300 - Merely because thereafter he might have tried to
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