Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 475 · Decided 3 July 2015
Basisth Narayan Yadav v. Kailash Rai and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 475 · [2015] 6 S.C.R. 949
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 67/2009
- Decided
- 3 July 2015
- Bench
- PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE, UDAY UMESH LALIT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3048, 3, 4; Evidence Act Section 1138
Headnote
A B Penal code, 1860- s. 3048 - Death of married woman c - In her matrimonial house - Within 7 years of marriage - Prosecution of 10 accused - Case of one accused abated due to her death during trial - Conviction of the 9 accused by trial court - Acquittal of all the accused by High Court - On case suffers from D many infirmities, yet incriminating circumstances of the case indicate that the deceased was physically assaulted soon before her death - Demand of dowry and harassment on its account was also sufficiently proved- Thus main ingredients of s. 3048 have been proved to
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