Supreme Court of India

Kulwant Singh and Ors. v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [2004] 1 S.C.R. 1018
Bench Doraiswamy Raju J.
Decided 23 January 2004

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the accused C persons have not been able to discharge their onus of proof that they had killed the deceased in exercise of their right of private defence.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860-Sections 96, 148, 149, 302 & 323-Evidence Act, ... 1872-Section 32-Murder of two persons and injuring two witnesses by c accused with sharp weapons-One of the deceased making a statement five days before death-Whether dying declaration-Plea of right of private defence by accused-Admissibility of-Held, the said statement is a dying declaration and hence admissible in evidence-On facts, the accused were not able to establish that the offence was committed in the exercise of their right of private defence. Appellants, numbering three, with their father (accused no.I) and brother

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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