Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 770 · Decided 11 November 2010
DR. Sunil Kumar Sambhudayal Gupta and ORS. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 770 · [2010] 15 S.C.R. 452
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 891/2004
- Decided
- 11 November 2010
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 306134, 498A, 34, 306; CrPC Section 161
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 306134 and 498A/34 - Conviction under - Suicide by married woman 6 years after marriage - c A/legation against husband and parents-in-law that they ill treated the deceased and suspected that the deceased had illicit relation with a family friend and that days prior to her death and all that compelled the deceased to commit suicide - Acquittal by trial court - 0 Conviction by High Court - Challenged - Held: Cumulative effect of medical evidence given by three doctors led to the inference that the deceased suffered from manic depression and had
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