Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 61 · Decided 31 March 1980
Som Nath v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 61 · [1980] 3 S.C.R. 280
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 3478/1979
- Decided
- 31 March 1980
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, E.S. VENKATARAMIAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 32
Headnote
B Indian Evidence Act Section 32-Dying Declaration-Value of. c D E F G H The petitioner was found guilty of burning his wife by the Courts below. By Special Leave Petition, the Petitioner sought to discredit the dying declara·· lions. Dismissing the petition, HEID : Concurrent 32 of the Evidence Act, are the groaning utterances of a dying woman in the grip of dreadful agony which cannot be judged by the standards of fullness of particulars which wit- nesses lll.3;Y give in other situations.. To discredit such dying declarations for shortfalls here and there or
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