Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 849 · Decided 17 December 2013
Chhotan Sao & Another v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 849 · [2013] 17 S.C.R. 843
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1613/2008
- Decided
- 17 December 2013
- Bench
- RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI, JASTI CHELAMESWAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3048, 498, 304, 3, 5, 498A, 304B
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: ss. 3048 and 498-A - Conviction by courts below - Held: A B c Conviction uls 498A calls for no interference, as there is concurrent finding by courts below based on evidence that accused subjected the deceased to cruelty as explained uls 0 · 498A - As regards offence u/s to establish the cause of death - Post mortem report indicates no injuries on the body of deceased - Further, according to FIR, death was caused by compelling the deceased to consume poison, but the doctor who conducted post-mortem E was not examined nor was the Forensic Laboratory Report
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