Supreme Court of India

Muralidhar @ Gidda & Anr. v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [2014] 4 S.C.R. 817

Bench R.M. Lodha and Shiva Kirti Singh JJ.

Decided 9 April 2014

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the dying declaration of deceased Pradeep - Ex.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

EVIDENCE: Dying declaration - Evidentiary value of -- Trial of c accused for offences punishable u/ss. 302, rlw s. 149 and s. 148 /PC - Witnesses turned hostile - Prosecution case based on dying declaration - Acquittal by trial court - Conviction by High Court - Held: If the dying declaration is recorded not directly from the actual words of the maker. but as dictated by 0 somebody else, this by itself creates suspicion about credibility of such statement and prosecution has to clear the. same to the satisfaction of court - In the instant case, dying declaration was not recorded in actual

Authorities it was built on

1973 Shivaji Sahebrao Bobade & Anr v. State of Maharashtra cited by 159
2007 Chandrappa and Ors. v. State of Karnataka cited by 45
2007 State of Goa v. Sanjay Thakran and Anr. cited by 32
2002 Harijana Thirupala and Ors. v. Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad cited by 19
1998 Sambasivan and Ors. v. State of Kerala cited by 18
1977 Umedbhai Jadavbhai v. The State of Gujarat cited by 12
1978 Mohammad Hasnuddin v. Staib of Maharashtra cited by 11
1970 Khedu Mohton and Ors. v. State of Bihar cited by 11
2008 Ghurey Lal v. State of U.P. cited by 10
1997 Madan Lal v. State of Jammu and Kashmir cited by 3
1987 Tota Singh & Anr. v. State of Punjab cited by 2
1994 Ram Kumar v. The State of Haryana cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2016 V. Sejappa v. The State by Police Inspector Lokayukta, Chitradurga relied on

Of those, 1 relied on

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