Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 333 · Decided 25 April 2014
Dinesh v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 333 · [2014] 7 S.C.R. 321
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 578/2011
- Decided
- 25 April 2014
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, M.Y. EQBAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 113; Evidence Act Section 113
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 304-8 - Evidence Act, 1872 - A B s. 113-8 - Suicide committed by married woman within 4 years of marriage - Death caused due to consumption of C pesticide - Conviction of husband-appellant - Justification - Held: Justified - Defence of appellant that death was caused due to - Evidence of the witnesses sufficiently established that there was persistent demand for dowry from D the side of the accused persons and for non-fulfilment of their demand, the deceased was being subjected to cruelty and harassment - Proximate connection between cruelty, harassment and death
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