Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 923 · Decided 11 August 2008
State of Punjab REP. Through Secretary v. Raj Kumar and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 923 · [2008] 11 S.C.R. 1169
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 537/2003
- Decided
- 11 August 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, G.S. SINGHVI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 302; Evidence Act
Headnote
Indian Evidence Act, 1872: Dying declaration - Conviction on the basis of - Held: c Situation in which a person is on his death-bed being exceed- ingly solemn, severe and grave is the reason in law to accept veracity of his statement - Moreover, its exclusion will result in miscarriage dying declaration should be of such nature as to inspire full confidence of the Court as to its correctness -Once the Court is satisfied that it was true o· and voluntary, conviction could solely be based on it without any further corroboration - In the instant case,. prosecution has
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