Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 40 · Decided 13 January 2010
Vijay Kumar Arora v. State GOVT. of NCT of Delhi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 40 · [2010] 1 S.C.R. 1069
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 125/2009
- Decided
- 13 January 2010
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, J.M. PANCHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder of wife - Death due A B to more than 90% burn injuries - Circumstantial evidence - Verbal dying declaration of deceased before five witnesses C implicating the accused - Parents and sister of deceased alleging physical and mental cruelty meted out to deceased by of accused also proved - Defence case that the death was either suicidal or accidental - Conviction by courts below - Held: Conviction justified - D The facts and circumstances of the case prove that the case was neither suicidal nor accidental, it was homicidal -Physical and mental cruelty
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