Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 977 · Decided 26 August 2008
Chattar Singh and ANR. v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 977 · [2008] 12 S.C.R. 765
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 180/2001
- Decided
- 26 August 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201, 498; Evidence Act Section 30
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 201 and 498-A - Death of a woman within 7 years of marriage and also of her infant c daughter - Circumstantial evidence - Extra-judicial confessions of accused (husband and father-in-law) that they had done the deceased to death suspecting her fidelity - Complaint deceased that it was a dowry death - Deceased last seen together with the accused - Prosecution D of husband u/ss. 302, 201 and 498A - Prosecution of father-... in-Jaw and other relatives u/s 498-A - Courts below convicting I' the husband and father-in ... Jaw and acquitting other relatives - On
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