Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 323 · Decided 20 March 2007
Dnyaneshwar v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 323 · [2007] 4 S.C.R. 248
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 653/2006
- Decided
- 20 March 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
t- f >- Penal Code, 1860-s. 302-Unnatural death ofwife-ln her matrimonial ~ house-Opinion of doctor that the death was caused due to asphyxia All c ((throttling)-Conviction by trial court, of the husband-accused alongwith his parents ulss 302 and 498-A-High Court convicting husband-accused due to asphyxia cannot be true in absence of fracture on the body of deceased-Held: The accused cannot get benefit of the fact that death due to failure to notice some injuries-Other. i1?juries showing that D death was caused-Whe.n the couple was last seen in the premises, to which an outsider
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