crying and informed them that quarrel took place
between her and appellant as the appellant used to
go one day for work and on the next day, he did not
work. Dimple told them that there is danger to her
at the hands of appellant, however, the appellant
told all of them that he will not cause any harm to
Dimple, hence, they went away. Thereafter, at
about 2.30 p.m. the appellant poured kerosene on
Dimple and set her on fire. She raised shouts,
whereupon the neighbours came to the scene. On
seeing the neighbours, the appellant started
extinguishing the fire. Thereafter, Dimple was
taken to hospital. P.W.6 Dr. Jadhav examined
Dimple. He found that Dimple sustained 69% burn
injuries. Thereafter, the dying declaration
(Exhibit 22) of Dimple came to be recorded by P.W.5
Police Head Constable Rathod. This was recorded at
about 6 p.m. Thereafter, Special Executive
Magistrate P.W.3 Afzalpurkar recorded dying
declaration (Exhibit 18) of Dimple. Before
recording the dying declarations, both P.W. 3
Afzalpurkar and P.W. 5 Rathod, obtained the
opinion of the Doctor and took endorsement thereon
that the patient was conscious and fit to give
statement. In both the dying declarations, Dimple
