Supreme Court says conviction unsafe without corroboration when dying declaration is suspicious or inconsistent ...

A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ahsanuddin Amanullah said a dying declaration was an important piece of evidence, ...

Twelve years after a man was sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly burning his wife to death in Tamil Nadu, the apex ...

The final ruling relied on later consistent dying declarations and supporting medical evidence. The court emphasised the importance of the third dying declaration, which was corroborated by a ...

A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ahsanuddin Amanullah acquitted the man, giving him benefit of doubt, and finding that her dying declaration was 'suspicious'.

The Supreme Court has said it was not safe to convict on the basis of a suspicious dying declaration in the absence of corroborative evidence and acquitted a man of his wife’s murder. A bench of ...

The trial court had convicted him on the basis of his wife’s dying declaration. However, the Bench asked courts to act cautiously in such matters. “In cases where the dying declaration is ...