Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 1467 · Decided 11 December 1996
Rattan Singh v. State of Himachal Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 1467 · [1996] SUPP. 9 S.C.R. 938
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 509/1991
- Decided
- 11 December 1996
- Bench
- A.S. ANAND, K.T. THOMAS (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 154; Evidence Act Section 32, 32(1), 6
Headnote
SINGH v. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH DECEMBER 11, 1996 B [DR. A.S. ANAND AND K.T. THOMAS, JJ.) Cn'minal Law : Evidence Act, 1872 : Section 32( 1 ). C Admissibility of statement made by a person who was dead-Condi- tions to be satisfied-Accused intruded into courtyard of house of deceased during dead be direct nexus D between "circumstances" and death-Even distant circumstances could be­ come admissible if it had nexus with the transaction which resulted in death-Even apart from S.32( 1) such statement of deceased admissible under S.6 due to its proximity of time and space
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