Supreme Court of India
State Delhi (administration) v. Laxman Kumar & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that woman must rise and on account of certain virtues which Nature has endowed them with to the exclusion of man, due credit llllSt be given to women as possessors of those exclusive qualities.
Judgment, page 38
From the headnote
Murder by burning - No eye witness to testify the act of setting fire to the deceased or to the defence version of deceased's saree catching fire accidently, except the oral testi-· mony of witnesses who ran to the spot soon after hearing the cries for help by the deceased, the three statements implicating the accused as the perpetrators of the crime made by the deceased before admission in the hospital, the conduct of the accused when the deceased's clothes were aflame, the alleged torture of the deceased for sometime preceding the occurrence over demands for cash and goods in kind and other
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Where later benches applied it
- 2019 Ashish Jain v. Makrand Singh and Ors.
- 2011 State of Rajasthan v. Shera Ram @ Vishnu Dutta
- 2014 Hardeep Singh v. State of Punjab & Ors.
Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to
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