IBRAHIM ISMAIL BHATTI vs STATE OF GUJARAT CHIEF SECRETARY — Crl.A. No. 504/2012

Summary of Ibrahim Ismail Bhatti v. State of Gujarat (Crl.A. 504/2012) The Supreme Court dismissed the appellant's conviction appeal for murder (IPC Section 302) of his wife in a 1992 dowry death case. The Court upheld the lower courts' reliance on three dying declarations (one oral, two written), rejecting arguments that they were unreliable or fraudulently recorded, and found no evidentiary weakness despite two prosecution witnesses being declared hostile. The Court directed the appellant to surrender within one month to serve the remaining sentence, while granting him pre-mature release eligibility after completing 14 years of actual imprisonment as conceded by the State. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.