Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 522 · Decided 24 July 2015
Eshwarappa v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 522 · [2015] 8 S.C.R. 979
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1951/2012
- Decided
- 24 July 2015
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, ADARSH KUMAR GOEL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3
Headnote
A 8 Penal Code, 1860: ss.3'>2, 498-A and 201 - Dowiy death - Death by strangulation - Circumstantial evidence - c A/legation that the appellant-husband developed illicit relationship with another woman and mistreated his wife and made demand of dowiy- On the fateful day, wife requested· take her ailing son to hospital-Appel/ant asked her to come · D to his field and later the deceased was found dead with ligature marks around her neck- Trial court found him guilty ulss. 302, 498-A and 201 - High Court upheld conviction holding that deceased was last seen alone in the
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