Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 173 · Decided 30 January 2025
Lalita v. Vishwanath & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 173 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 1643
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1086/2017
- Decided
- 30 January 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, R MAHADEVAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 306, 498A, 34; CrPC; Evidence Act Section 113A, 67, 113, 8, 32
Headnote
Matter pertains to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court acquitting the respondents for the offence punishable u/ss.306, 498A, and 34 IPC; and incase the first informant dies before stepping into the witness box, whether the contents of such FIR can be and read into the evidence. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.306, 498A, 34 - Abetment of suicide - FIR by the father that his daughter committed suicide as she was constantly harassed by the respondents-husband, in-laws and first wife of the husband - Respondents
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