Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 191 · Decided 21 April 1998
Ram Bihari Yadav v. State of Bihar and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 191 · [1998] 2 S.C.R. 1097
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 500/1990
- Decided
- 21 April 1998
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, S.S.M. QUADRI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 32
Headnote
B Indian Penal Code, 1860 : S. 302-Death of victim due to burn injuries-Statement of Victim that her husband set her ablaze recorded by Judicial Magistrate II Class in the C hospiral-Trial Court convicting the accused and sentencing him to suffer life imprisonment-High Court upholding the declaration recorded by the Magistrate-Medical evidence and other circumstantial evidence corroborated· the dying declaration, which is true D and acceptable. Evidence Act, 1872 : S. 32- Dying declaration-Held is a substantive evidence and requires no corroboration for forming basis of
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