Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 457 · Decided 21 April 2022
Devender Singh & ORS. v. The State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 457 · [2022] 4 S.C.R. 1037
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 383/2018
- Decided
- 21 April 2022
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, A.S. BOPANNA, HIMA KOHLI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304B, 498A, 120B; Evidence Act Section 113B
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 304B, 498A & 120B -Evidence Act, 1872 - s. 113B - Dowry death - Presumption of dowry death - On facts, complaint against appellants-husband, mother-in-law and brother-in-law of the victim-wife that the victim was repeatedly harassed for unnatural death within six months of the marriage - Victim went missing from her matrimonial home and her body was subsequently found in the river after 10 days - Conviction and sentence of the appellants u/s. 498A, 304B and 120B by the High Court - On appeal, held: s. 304B r/w
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