Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 745 · Decided 11 November 2013
Bhupendra v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 745 · [2013] 12 S.C.R. 269
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1774/2008
- Decided
- 11 November 2013
- Bench
- RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI, MADAN B. LOKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498, 304, 306; Evidence Act
Headnote
PENAL CODE 1860: ss.498, 304-B and 306 - Demand for dowry by bride's husband and his parents - Death of bride by consuming poisonous substance - Conviction of husband by courts below - Upheld. A B c ss.304-B and s.306 - Dowry death - Chemical D examination of viscera - Held: Not mandatory in every Even when a viscera report is sought for, its absence is not necessarily fatal to the case of the prosecution when an unnatural death punishable u/s 304-B or u/s 306 takes place -- In a case of unnatural death inviting E s.304-B /PC (read with the presumption uls 113-8 of Evidence Act) or s.306
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