Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 746 · Decided 11 November 2013
Bhola Ram v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 746 · [2013] 12 S.C.R. 573
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1022/2008
- Decided
- 11 November 2013
- Bench
- RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI, MADAN B. LOKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3048, 498A; Evidence Act Section 1138
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - ss.3048 & 498A - Sister-in-law of appellant committed suicide within few years of marriage - C Allegations of dowry death - Conviction of appellant - Justification - Held: Not justified - Appellant deserves acquittal since no evidence inculpating him - No definite PW-2 (deceased's father) or anybody from his family that appellant D had demanded any additional dowry from him or anybody in his family or had treated the deceased with cruelty or in a humiliating manner so as to make him complicit in the dowry death - Appellant may have been a silent or a
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