Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 649 · Decided 19 November 2020
Jayantilal Verma v. State of M.P. (Now Chhattisgarh)
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 649 · [2020] 12 S.C.R. 411
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 590/2015
- Decided
- 19 November 2020
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, HRISHIKESH ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 - Death caused by strangulation - In matrimonial house of the deceased - Chargesheet against the husband (appellant- accused) and father-in-law and mother-in-law of the deceased - Trial Court relying on evidence of PW-1 and medical evidence appeal to High Court prosecution against father-in-law of the deceased abated due to his death - High Court acquitted the mother-in-law while convicting the appellant-accused - Appeal to Supreme Court - Held: Evidence of PW-1 was consistent and cogent - In view of the facts
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