Supreme Court of India

Tanua Rabidas v. State of Assam

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Reported as [2014] 8 S.C.R. 1142
Bench M.Y. Eqbal and Pinaki Chandra Ghose JJ.
Decided 4 September 2014

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, there is no merit in this appeal which is dismissed accordingly.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Conviction and sentence under, on basis of the dying declaration - Prosecution case that husband along with the co-accused present in the house, poured kerosene oil upon his wife and ignited her - Incident took place nine years after the marriage - Wife succumbed to the burn injuries in the hospital - On basis of the prosecution evidence and two dying declarations, conviction of the husband uls. 302 and imposition of life imprisonment, by courts below - Held: There is no infirmity or perversity in the order passed by the courts below - Statement of the doctor. and

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