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Once the Court is satisfied that the declaration was true and voluntary, undoubtedly, it can base its conviction without any further corroboration. It cannot be laid down as an absolute rule of law that the dying declaration cannot form the sole basis of conviction unless it is corroborated. The rule requiring corroboration is merely a rule of prudence."

24) After bestowing our anxious consideration to the submissions made by learned counsel for the accused and the State and having gone through the record, we find that there is nothing on record to indicate that dying declaration Ex P/14 recorded by Executive Magistrate Madhu Nahar (PW9) was a false or manipulated document. We find the same to be truthful account of the incident given by deceased Suman. Needless to emphasize as also reiterated by the Apex Court in the case of Muthu Kutty and another Vs. State by Inspector of Police, T.N. Reported in (2005) 9 Supreme Court Cases page 113 and Satish Ambanna Bansode Vs. State of Maharashtra reported in AIR 2009 Supreme Court 1626 that the dying declaration can form the sole basis for conviction if it is found to be true and voluntary.