Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 346 · Decided 23 August 2002
T.K. Reddy v. State of A.P. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 346 · [2002] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 648
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 538/1993
- Decided
- 23 August 2002
- Bench
- S. RAJENDRA BABU, P. VENKATARAMA REDDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act
Headnote
c Penal Code, 1860: Section 302: Murder-Charge against husband of deceased-Two dying declarations-One stating that her husband set her on fire and another stating that she set herself on fire-Presence of accused-husband at the time of incident contradictory to facts on under Section 302 /PC cannot be sustained-Evidence Act, 1872-Dying D declaration. According to the prosecution, on the fateful day, wife of the accused-appellant came out of the house with her clothes aflame. PWl and PW2, her neighbours extinguished the fire and took her to hospital. PW7, a
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