Supreme Court of India

Bhagwan Tukaram Dange v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2014] 3 S.C.R. 753
Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and Vikramajit Sen JJ.
Decided 13 March 2014

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What the Court ordered

We find no reason to interfere with the conviction and sentence awarded by the trial court and affirmed by the High Court.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

PENAL CODE, 1860: ss.302 and 498- rlw s. 34 - Death of wife of appellant c with bum injuries - Appellant arid his father, drunk, asking the victim to bring money from her parental house - On refusal she was given severe beatings - Kerosene poured on her and appellant setting her on fire - Dying declarations - Conviction by courts below and sentence of life imprisonment - Held: 0 Conviction was recorded on the basis of dying declarations recorded by Head Constable and Judicial Magistrate - Said statements were further corroborated by father of deceased and medical evidence - There is no reason

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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