Supreme Court of India
Sayaji Hanmant Bankar v. State of Maharashtra
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Penal Code, 1860: s.304, (Part I), s.300, Exception 4; s.302 - Conviction on the basis of dying declaration - Allegation that accused-husband came home in drunkeri state and started abusing victim-wife and hit her on knee with brass pot and thereafter threw burning kerosene lamp on her - Victim was wearing a nylon sari which caught fire and she got engulfed in flames - In her dying declaration, she stated that accused had tried to douse the fire - Courts below convicted accused uls.302 and awarded life imprisonment - On appeal, held: On facts and in view of evidence on record, Exception 4 to
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