Supreme Court of India

Sukanti Moharana v. State of Orissa

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Reported as [2009] 11 S.C.R. 996

Bench Dalveer Bhandari and Dr. Mukundakam Sharma JJ.

Decided 29 July 2009

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that both the courts were totally justified and also right in relying upon the two dying declarations one recorded by the doctor (PW-10) and G the other i.e. oral dying declaration made to PW-1 and PW-.

Judgment, page 17

Authorities it was built on

1992 Smt. Paniben v. State of Gujarat cited by 50
2007 Nallapati Sivaiah v. Sub-divisional Officer, Guntur, A.P. cited by 6

Where later benches applied it

2012 Surinder Kumar v. State of Punjab relied on

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