Supreme Court · 2026 INSC 535 · Decided 25 May 2026
Gour Acharje v. The State of Tripura & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2026 INSC 535 · [2026] 6 S.C.R. 604
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1803/2014
- Decided
- 25 May 2026
- Bench
- PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA, K.V. VISWANATHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
Whether, in a case of death occurring within the absolute privacy of a matrimonial home, the prosecution has established beyond reasonable doubt that the victim's death was a homicidal hanging staged by the appellant-husband after an assault-thereby shifting facts to the husband-or whether it was a case of voluntary suicidal hanging as claimed by the appellant. Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Victim-deceased, wife of appellant, was subjected to dowry demand by her in-laws - She was tormented and tortured
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