Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 173 · Decided 18 March 2013
Indrajit Sureshprasad Bind & ORS. v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 173 · [2013] 2 S.C.R. 931
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 613/2007
- Decided
- 18 March 2013
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3048, 498A, 306
Headnote
A 8 Penal Code, 1860 - ss.3048, 498A and 306 - Suicide by married woman -Conviction of appellants (husband and in- C laws) - Justification - Held: Not justified - Letter allegedly written by victim to her brother (PW3) was the only evidence produced by the prosecution to prove that the appellants to harassment and cruelty in connection with demand for dowry - But since there were grave doubts as D to the whether the said letter was actually written by the victim or not, conviction of appellants only on the basis of the said letter would be unsafe - Prosecution unable to prove beyond
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