Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 672 · Decided 4 October 2013
Panchanand Mandal @ Pachan Mandal & ANR. v. State of Jharkhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 672 · [2013] 11 S.C.R. 328
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2173/2009
- Decided
- 4 October 2013
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, KURIAN JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3048, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860- s.3048 - Dowry death -A/legations C of - Prosecution case inter. a/ia based on dying declaration (Ext.4) and statements made by PWs 13 and 14, the brother and mother of the deceased - Conviction of appellants (parents-in-law of the deceased) - Justification - Statement made by PW13 not reliable since no o evidence to suggest that just before the death PW-13 had talked to deceased or that deceased was in the condition to make statements - Her statement corroborated by PW-14, but not corroborated by PW-12 - Ext.4, the dying declaration also
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