Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 990 · Decided 21 April 2015
Santosh S/O Shankar Pawar v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 990 · [2015] 4 S.C.R. 962
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 683/2015
- Decided
- 21 April 2015
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, R. BANUMATHI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 300
Headnote
c Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder - Husband suspected wife of infidelity, assaulted her and furlher set her on fire by pouring kerosene over her person - Wife suffered 60% burn injuries and later succumbed to her injuries - Her dying declaration was recorded - On the o basis of the oral evidence of the prosecution witnesses, order of conviction and sentence of the husband uls. 302 by courls below - Interference with - Held: Not called for - Concurrent findings of facts recorded by the courls below based on evidence - There E being clear evidence as to the act of the accused
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