Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 816 · Decided 9 November 2006
Ranjit Singh and CO. v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 816 · [2006] SUPP. 8 S.C.R. 802
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 142/2005
- Decided
- 9 November 2006
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: S. 302-Death of married women by burn injuries-Jn two dying C declarations victim implicating her in-laws and their relatives­ lnconsistencies in two dying declarations-Conviction of in-laws and their relatives by courts below-Husband acquitted on benefit of doubt-Held, in a or the other accused persons, Court shall lean more D towards the first dying declaration than the second one-Role of mother-in­ /aw, in lighting the match stick is consistent-Her appeal dismissed­ !nconsistency in the role ascribed to brothers-in-.laws and sister-in-law of the deceased
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