Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 133 · Decided 18 February 2015
Ghusabhai Raisangbhai Chorasiya & ORS. v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 133 · [2015] 2 S.C.R. 594
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 262/2009
- Decided
- 18 February 2015
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 306, 201
Headnote
C Pena/Code, 1860- 498A, 306, 201 and114-Dowrydeath - The deceased committed suicide - Deceased-wife suspecting illicit relationship of her husband-accused - Conviction by courts below of the husband and other three D accused - On appeal, held: Mere extra-marital relationship, even illegal and immoral unless proved that the accused had conducted in such a way which amounted to high degree of mental cruelty driving a woman to commit suicide - The facts of the present case did not E amount to cruelty under the first limb of s.498-A - The evidence against other
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