In Brief
A woman with severe burn injuries made a dying declaration naming three accused persons who had set her ablaze, allegedly pressuring her into prostitution. She died from burn injuries. While the Supreme Court upheld that dying declarations can be the sole basis of conviction if they are coherent, voluntary, and made by someone in a fit mental state, it found that only the primary accused (Pappi/Mashkoor) had a specific, direct role attributed to him—pouring kerosene and igniting the fire. The other two accused (Naeema and Naeem) were only said to have "aided" him without any specific role described. The Court acquitted them, allowing their appeals for lack of sufficient attribution in the dying declaration itself."
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