Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 686 · Decided 9 October 2006
Kailash v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 686 · [2006] SUPP. 7 S.C.R. 45
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1027/2006
- Decided
- 9 October 2006
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Evidence Act
Headnote
Penal Code. 1860; Section 304B-df!ath otherwise than under normal circumstances- Held, it means death not being in the usual course but apparently under suspicious circumstances if not caused by burns or bodily injury as "normal circumstances" apparently means natural death. Evidence deceased-Held mere lapse of some time by itself would not provide to an accused a defence, if the course of conduct relating to cruelty or harassment in connection with the dowry demand is shown to have existed earlier in time not too late and not too stale before the date of death of the victim.
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