Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 6 · Decided 8 January 2003
Gurucharan Kumar and ANR. v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 6 · [2003] 1 S.C.R. 60
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1988/1996
- Decided
- 8 January 2003
- Bench
- N. SANTOSH HEGDE, B.P. SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3048, 306
Headnote
Penal Code, /86~ections 304B and 306-Dowry death and abetment of suicide-Both trial court and High Court convicting husband and in-laws C of deceased-Appeal by in-laws and not by husband since he has already undergone the entire sentence-Held: oral evidence creating impression that accused thus prosecution/ailed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt-Hence in-laws to be acquitted-Since case of husband same as case of in-laws, husband also to be acquitted-Benefit to non-appealing D accused-Practice and Procedure. According to the prosecution, a lady committed suicide by
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