Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 1084 · Decided 13 September 2023
Buddhadeb Saha & ORS. v. The State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 1084 · [2023] 15 S.C.R. 332
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1692/2022
- Decided
- 13 September 2023
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 304B
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: Whether the High Court committed any error in passing the impugned judgment holding the husband and in-laws guilty for the off ence punishable u/ss. 498A, 304B read with 34 IPC. Evidence - Circumstantial evidence - Dowry demand - Commission of suicide by victim-wife on account of consumption of poison - However, post mortem report silent as to the exact cause of death and the viscera report silent as to traces of poison being found therein - Eff ect of, on prosecution case: Held: Considering the
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