Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1281 · Decided 26 November 2019
Gurjit Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1281 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 232
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1492/2010
- Decided
- 26 November 2019
- Bench
- NAVIN SINHA, BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498, 306; Evidence Act Section 113
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.498-A - Cruelty and harassment on account of dowry demand - Prosecution proved that the deceased was harassed with a view to force her and her parents to meet unlawful demand for money and such a harassment was on account of failure by her and her parents to meet -Thus, charge under Explanation (b) of s.498-A was proved. Penal Code, 1860: ss.306, 498-A - Whether when the prosecution established cruelty under Explanation (b) of s.498-A and also established that the deceased committed suicide within seven years of the marriage, the accused could
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