The Supreme Court has set aside a judgment of acquittal passed by the Himachal Pradesh High Court, thereby restoring the conviction and life imprisonment sentence of a man accused of setting his wife on fire. The Bench, comprising Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice R. Mahadevan, observed that the High Court had erred in discarding the
Dying Declaration Cannot be Discarded on Speculative or Hyper-Technical Grounds: Supreme Court
