Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 585 · Decided 3 September 2013
Gurdip Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 585 · [2013] 8 S.C.R. 277
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1308/2013
- Decided
- 3 September 2013
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, KURIAN JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3048, 489A, 498A; Evidence Act Section 1138, 113A
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - ss.3048 & 489A - Death of married woman - Allegations of cruelty and harassment - Two C accused- husband and father-in-law - Conviction of appellant (father-in-law) u/ss. 3048 & 498A - By courts below - Challenge to - Held: Evidence that deceased had been harassed by death - Clear proof in evidence of PWs 1 & 2 that appellant was taunting the D deceased demanding dowry - Deceased was even sent out from her matrimonial home on this account - Yet, for conviction u/s.3048, it is obligatory on the part of the prosecution to establish that the death occurred
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