Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 593 · Decided 3 September 2014
Prempal v. STATF. of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 593 · [2014] 7 S.C.R. 615
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2030/2012
- Decided
- 3 September 2014
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 354
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 - Murder - Allegation that the apoel/ant grappled his sister-in-law (victim2deceased) and poured kerosene on her and set her ablaze - Victim-deceased C taken to hospital where Tehsildar recorded her dying declaration - Conviction based on dying declaration - Held: The the certificate from the doctor regarding the fitness of the deceased to give statement - In the evidence also, o doctor stated that the deceased was conscious and in a fit condition to give statement - There was nothing to show that the deceased was tutored by her relatives to falsely
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)