Shahid Khan vs State Of Rajasthan on 2 March, 2016
4. For convicting the appellant, the learned Additional Sessions Judge
basically relied on the dying declarations (DDs) of the deceased made to the IO
of the case (PW-15) on 11-8-2010 and the one made before the Executive
Magistrate (PW-13) on 12-8-2010 i.e. Exbt.10, Exbt. 10/1, Exbt.11 and Exbt.
11/1 respectively and the statement of Ms. Suchitra Paul (PW-3), who is the
niece of the informant and was about 8 years old at the time of taking her
evidence. Assailing the impugned judgment, Mr. R. Dutta, the learned counsel
for the appellant, has pointed out a number of defects in the DDs, which
raised serious doubts on the genuineness thereof. He also submits that PW-3
is evidently a tutored witness and her presence at the PO at the time of
incident is highly doubtful. For all these reasons, contends the learned
counsel, the impugned judgment cannot be sustained in law and is liable to be
set aside. Strong reliance is placed by him on the following decisions to fortify
his various submissions: Shahid Khan v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 2016 SC
1178; Bhagwan Singh and others v. State of MP, AIR 2003 SC 1088; K.
Venkateshwarlu v. State of Andhra Pradesh, 2012 Cri LJ 4388; Patiram
v. State of Maharashtra, 2003 Cri LJ 4718; Babul Ghosh v. State of
Tripura, (2015) 1 TLR 212 and Sujit Biswas v. State of Assam, 2013 Cril
LJ 3140.