Supreme Court of India

Ram Bihari Yadav v. State of Bihar and Ors.

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Reported as [1998] 2 S.C.R. 1097

Bench M.K. Mukherjee and S.S. Mohammed Quadri JJ.

Decided 21 April 1998

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we are of the view that the Trial Court as well D as the High Court has rightly based the conviction on Exh. 2, the dying declaration.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code, 1860 : S. 302-Death of victim due to burn injuries-Statement of Victim that her husband set her ablaze recorded by Judicial Magistrate II Class in the hospiral-Trial Court convicting the accused and sentencing him to suffer life imprisonment-High Court upholding the conviction and sentence Held, both the courts below rightly based tlie conviction on the dying declaration recorded by the Magistrate-Medical evidence and other circumstantial evidence corroborated· the dying declaration, which is true and acceptable. Evidence Act, 1872 : S. 32- Dying declaration-Held is a

Where later benches applied it

2022 The State of Jharkhand v. Shailendra Kumar Rai @ Pandav Rai relied on
2018 Madan @ Madhu Patekar v. The State of Maharashtra relied on
2013 Mary Pappa Jebamani v. Ganesan & Ors. relied on
2013 Karan Singh v. State of Haryana and Anr. relied on
2010 C. Muniappan & Ors. v. State of Tamil Nadu relied on
2022 Varsha Garg v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2017 Suresh Chandra Jana v. The State of West Bengal & Ors. referred to
2016 Pooja Pal v. Union of India and Ors. referred to

Of those, 5 relied on · 3 referred to

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