Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 228 · Decided 12 March 2018
Dev Kanya Tiwari v. The State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 228 · [2018] 4 S.C.R. 281
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 720/2016
- Decided
- 12 March 2018
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, S. ABDUL NAZEER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 r/w. s.34 - Prosecution case that brother of complainant-PW-5 was killed by his wife and in-laws - Defence plea that the deceased had committed suicide by consuming poisonous tablets - During the pendency of trial, accused-wife of deceased passed u/s.302/34 - High Court affirmed the conviction of the accused-appellant - On appeal, held: In instant case, a complaint was already lodged by the other accused-wife of the deceased, prior to the complaint lodged by PW-5 - As per that complaint, deceased informed the Dr.
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