Supreme Court · 1995 INSC 843 · Decided 5 December 1995
State of Orissa v. Bansidhar Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1995 INSC 843 · [1995] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 212
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1600/1995
- Decided
- 5 December 1995
- Bench
- N.P. SINGH, FAIZAN UDDIN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 397, 161; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Section 397-Quashing of Criminal Proceedin~Scope of-Veracity of dying declaration-l.P.C. Section--302. C 1he deceased was admitted in a hospital with 80 per cent bum injury. In his dying declaration given to the doctor attending him and recorded on the bed head him. The police registered a case of attempt to suicide against the D deceased on the basis of a written FIR from the son of the respondent. After the death of the deceased, a final report was submitted declaring the case to have been abated. The Magistrate, on the basis of the dying declaration
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