Supreme Court of India

Munuwa @ Satish Etc. v. The State of Uttar Pradesh

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Reported as [2022] 12 S.C.R. 86
Bench B. R. Gavai and Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha JJ.
Decided 26 August 2022

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that it is not safe to consider the FIR as a dying declaration as well.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss. 34, 302, 307 – Murder – On the fateful day, while the victim-principal of the College was si tting with his family physician and private practitioner-PW-6 outsi de his office of the college campus, three persons, -1, -2, and -3, allegedly entered the verandah and fired gunshots at the principal as wel l as at PW-6, and fled – First aid given to the principal and thereafter taken to Police Station on bullock cart – FIR lodged by the vi ctim, thereafter sent to hospital where he died of shock and hemor rhage due to injuries caused by several gun shots – Trial court c

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