Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 484 · Decided 18 October 2012
Devinder @ Kala Ram & ORS. v. The State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 484 · [2012] 9 S.C.R. 792
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 636/2009
- Decided
- 18 October 2012
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, SWATANTER KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 3048; CrPC Section 313; Evidence Act Section 1138, 32, 3, 4, 113
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: c s.498-A - Married woman - Subjected to cruelty by her husband and his relatives by demanding dowry - Death of the victim by burn injuries in the matrimonial house - Held: Evidence of prosecution witnesses fully supports the prosecution case that the victim, from a few days death, was subjected to harassment by all the three appellants in connection with demands of dowry - Therefore, the courts below rightly held the appellants guilty of offence punishable uls 498-A. s.304-B - Dowry death - Death of a married woman due E to burn injuries received by her in the
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