Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 167 · Decided 26 February 2015
Amrutlal Liladharbhai Kotak & ORS. v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 167 · [2015] 2 S.C.R. 871
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 186/2010
- Decided
- 26 February 2015
- Bench
- M.Y. EQBAL, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498, 498A, 3048; Evidence Act Section 113, 1138, 113A
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 498-A, 304-B and s.306 rlw C s.114-8 - Dowry death - Conviction by courts below relying on evidence of friends and relatives of the deceased as regards mental torture and harassment of the deceased by the accused, for bringing insufficient dowry - On appeal, 0 held: As committing suicide within seven years of her marriage and four witnesses have further proved that cruelty was meted out to the deceased immediately before her death, courts below rightly presumed that the suicide was abetted by the accused persons E (husband and relatives of the husband) -
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