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Dandu Lakshmi Reddy vs State Of A.P on 17 August, 1999

This Court in Dandu Lakshmi Reddy v. State of A.P. [1999 (7) scc 69] observed that on the fact-situation of a case a judicial mind would tend to wobble between two equally plausible hypothesis - was it suicide, or was it homicide? If the dying declaration projected by the prosecution gets credence the alternative hypothesis of suicide can be eliminated justifiably. For that purpose a scrutiny of the dying declaration with meticulous circumspection is called for. It must be sieved through the judicial cullendar and if it passes through the gauzes it can be made the basis of a conviction, otherwise not. It was further held that in view of the impossibility of conducting the test on the version in the dying declaration with the touchstone of cross-examination, the court has to adopt other tests in order to satisfy its judicial conscious that the dying declaration contained nothing but the truth.
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