Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 60 · Decided 19 January 2016
Bobbili Ramakrishna Raju Yadav & Ors v. State of Andhra Pradesh REP. BY Its Public Prosecutor High Court of A.P. Hyderabad, A.P. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 60 · [2016] 1 S.C.R. 103
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 45/2016
- Decided
- 19 January 2016
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, A.K. SIKRI, R. BANUMATHI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 304B; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
B Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.482 - Quashing of C proceedings - Wife of first appellant died in suspicious circumstances - Father of the deceased filed complaint against appellants - husband and Dowry Prohibition Act alleging that he had paid dowry amount and other articles to the appellants on their demand and the same were not returned - Cognizance of offence taken by magistrate - Petition for quashing of proceedings - Held: Giving of dowry and the traditional presents at or about the
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