Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 447 · Decided 1 July 2014
Umakant & ANR. v. State of Chhatisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 447 · [2014] 8 S.C.R. 69
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1424/2012
- Decided
- 1 July 2014
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, N.V. RAMANA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 498A, 3048, 34
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 rlw 34 - Conviction and sentence under, on the basis of dying declaration - Justification of - Victim-wife admitted in the hospital with burn C injuries, later succumbed to her injuries - Prosecution case that husband and his parents harassing the victim for dowry relying solely on the dying declaration upheld conviction of the appellants-husband and his parents u/s. 302134, however, D acquitted them u/ss. 304-8 and 498-A and ss. 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act - On appeal, held: Evidence available on record and the dying declaration does not
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