Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 305 · Decided 19 March 2007
Biswajit Halder @ Babu Halder and ORS. v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 305 · [2007] 4 S.C.R. 120
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 371/2007
- Decided
- 19 March 2007
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, S.H. KAPADIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3, 4, 304B, 498A, 113B, 3048; Evidence Act Section 113B
Headnote
~ Penal Code, I 860: ,._ c s. 304B-Applicability of-Held, applicable when cruelty or harassment is in connection with dowry demand-Evidence Act, 1872-s. I 13B-Dowry death. Prosecutions case is that deceased was subjected to harassment by her ;, husband and in-laws on account of non-fulfillment of convict~d husband and in-laws under ss.304B and 498A IPC and ss.3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 and passed various sentences. They filed appeal before High Court wherein it was held / that the appellants were to suffer the minimum sentence as prescribed under s.304B IPC, but there was
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