Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 634 · Decided 2 June 2022
Uttam v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 634 · [2022] 5 S.C.R. 863
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 485/2012
- Decided
- 2 June 2022
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, HIMA KOHLI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act Section 32, 60
Headnote
Evidence Act, 1872 - Multiple dying declarations - Admissibility, evidentiary value of - Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Appellant convicted u/s.302 for having murdered his wife by pouring kerosene on her and setting her on fire, by relying on two dying declarations of the and PW-14 (IO) and the other two being oral and communicated by the deceased to PW-2 (her father) and PW- 12 (mediator who had arranged the marriage of the parties) - Appeal filed by appellant, dismissed by High Court discarding the written dying declarations but giving credence to the
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