Supreme Court of India
Jagbir Singh v. State
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above, the law on the issue of dying declaration can be summarised to the effect that in case the court comes to the conclusion that the dying declaration is true and reliable, has been recorded by a person at a time whe n the deceased was fit physically and mentally to make the declaration and it has not been made under any tutoring/duress/prompting; it can be the sole basis for recording conviction.
Judgment, page 26
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 506 - Prosecution under - Alleging th at the accused killed his wife setting her ablaze after po uring kerosene oil over her - Accused also sustained burn injuries - In th e MLC (on 24.1.2008 the date of incident) the victim-wife made her statement that fire was accidental which was caused due to leak age of petrol from the tank of motorcycle when the accused was l ighting his 'biri' - On 25.1.2018 in statement made to the police offic er the victim did not implicate the accused - However, in her statement dated 27.01.2008 the victim attributed the act of setting
Authorities it was built on
- 1992 Smt. Paniben v. State of Gujarat
- 1982 Mohanlal Gangaram Gehani v. State of Maharashtra
- 2010 Lakhan v. State of M.P.
- 2008 Amol Singh v. State of M.P.
- 1993 Kundula Bala Subrahmanyam and Anr. v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- 1999 Kishan Lal v. State of Rajasthan
- 2007 Sayarabano@ Sultanabegum v. State of Maharashtra
- 2004 Lella Srinivasa Rao v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- 2009 Heeralal v. State of M.P.
Where later benches applied it
- 2023 Abhishek Sharma v. State (govt. of Nct of Delhi)
- 2025 Neeraj Kumar @ Neeraj Yadav v. State of U.P. & Ors.
- 2022 Rajaram v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors
- 2022 State of U.P. v. Veerpal & Anr.
Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to
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