Supreme Court of India

Mehiboobsab Abbasabi Nadaf v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [2007] 8 S.C.R. 713
Bench S.B. Sinha and H.S. Bedi JJ.
Decided 1 August 2007

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that whereas the findings of the learned Sessions Judge as also the High Court in regard to guilt of Appellant No.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: s.302134-Death of a woman allegedly caused by her husband and parents-in-law by setting her ablaze-Four dying declarations of deceased recorded-High Court acquitting parents-in-ldw by giving them benefit of doubt but maintaining conviction of husband-Held, conviction can indisputedly be based on a dying declaration provided that the same is held to have been rendered voluntarily and truthfully-Consistency in dying declaration is relevant factor for placing full reliance thereupon-On facts, deceased had taken contradictory and inconsistent stand in different dying

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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