Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 37 · Decided 20 January 2014
Joshinder Yadav v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 37 · [2014] 1 S.C.R. 567
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 259/2009
- Decided
- 20 January 2014
- Bench
- RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI, JASTI CHELAMESWAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 498A, 201; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860: s.302 rlw s.149, s.498A, s.201 - Dowry death - A/legation that victim-deceased was harassed C by accused-in-laws for dowry and one day they poisoned her and threw her dead body in river- Conviction by courts below - Appeal by accused-brother-in-law on the ground that he had party to ill treatment meted out to the deceased and to the murder - Held: The D evidence of PW-9 and 10, the father and the brother of the deceased, to effect that the deceased was subjected to cruelty and harassment did not suffer any dent and, therefore was reliable - Other attendant
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