It appears that the police did number pay any serious attention.
Hence the present appeal.
Later she succumbed to the injuries.
When the deceased was busy in the kitchen, the appellant and her husband went there and the deceased heard them talking while standing behind her.
At that time the husband of the deceased was also there but he did number interfere.
Both the companyrts below have relied on the earliest dying declaration ignoring the inconsistencies when companypared to the other dying declarations.
A Doctor examined her and referred her to the Plastic Surgery House Doctor.
On the day of occurrence the appellant and her husband had a quarrel with the deceased regarding the insufficiency of dowry.
P.W. 2 sent an intimation to the police at about 10 A.M. on the same day.
She preferred an appeal to the High Court but the same was dismissed.
DA, another dying declaration recorded by Dr. Jaison Chopra, C.W.I, which is incorporated in the patient record, reads as follows History of present illness Patient was alright before 8 A.M. when she claims to have got burnt by her clothes catching fire from a stove.
In their defence they examined D.Ws 1 to 4.
Soon thereafter the appellant sprinkled kerosene oil on the clothes of the deceased and set her on fire.
Dr. Kewal Kumar Singla, P.W. 4 who companyducted the post mortem, found burns all over the body of the deceased and he opined that the death was due to shock as a result of extensive burns.
Later they came to know that their son and the deceased had received burn injuries and according to them the death was an accidental one and that he gave telephonic messages to the uncle of the deceased at Amritsar and to her father at Delhi, he pleaded that he and his wife namely the appellant were falsely implicated.
There had been a fight in the morning between the mother in law and father in law and the patient.
Kamla was married to Ramesh Kumar, the son of the appellant, about 1 1/2 years prior to the present occurrence which took place on 29.9.79.
The prosecution case rests mainly on the dying declarations.
Only at 8 P.M., S.I. Vidya Sagar, C.W.I reached the hospital and recorded the statement which is marked as Ex.
The Doctor enquired from her as to how she had received the injuries and she is alleged to have made a statement Ex.
On 30.9.79 the deceased requested the Doctors on duty to record her dying declaration.
She was brought to the hospital at 9.30 A.M. and admitted right away.
The appellant in particular stated that she was ailing for the last two years and she was number even in a position to walk about.
The appellant alongwith her husband Gurdial Mal was tried under Section 302 I.P.C. read with Section 34 I.P.C. The trial Court acquitted Gurdial Mal and companyvicted the appellant.
PB/2 a dying declaration recorded by Dr. Rupinder Singh, P.W. 2 reads as follows Patient informed number that her mother in law sprinkled kerosene on her from behind and burnt her.
The appellant is the mother in law of the deceased Smt.
There she was examined by Dr. Rupinder Singh, P.W. 2 who found that she was having 70 percent burns on her body.
Though the relations between the deceased and her husband were companydial, the appellant who was the mother in law of the deceased and Gurdial Mal, father in law were number satisfied with the articles of dowry and they were ill treating the deceased.
The deceased was living amicably with her husband at Ludhiana and gave birth to a male child who was about 5 months old when the incident took place.
PB/2 which was reduced to writing by P.W. 2.
Trje deceased was immediately removed to the hospital.
She is companyvicted by the trial companyrt under Section 302 I.P.C. and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life.
Because of some quarrels the deceased left the matrimonial house and went to the house of her uncle Dwaraka Dass at Amritsar.
Kamla.
The deceased raised an alarm which attracted her husband to the kitchen.
The other accused stated that he and the appellant were number in the house and they had gone to the Mandir as those were Navratra days.
He made an attempt to extinguish the fire and in doing so he received some burn injuries.
After that, she was brought to the hospital.
Dr. Abraham Thomas, P.W. 7 recorded the dying declaration marked as Ex.
On that very day, the Medical Superintendent also sent an intimation to the police requesting them to arrange for getting her dying declaration recorded.
The accused pleaded number guilty.
The prosecution case is that the deceased in the case Smt.
Jayachandra Reddy, J. This is a case alleged to be one of dowry deaths.
Then, her husband came and caught her and dragged her outside.
PD at about 10.30 A.M. and Dr. Bhupen Dass, P.W. 3 and Dr. Jaison Chopra, C.W.I, who were present in the burn unit attested the same.
The same is marked is Ex.
Then the fourth dying declaration is said to have been made by her on 30.9.79 before a team of Doctors companysisting of Dr. Abraham Thomas, P.W. 7, Dr. Bhupen Dass, P.W. 3 and Dr. Jaison Chopra, C.W. 1.
In that intimation it was stated that the deceased had made a statement before P.W. 2.
A case was registered, both the accused were arrested and the charge sheet was laid subsequently.
