Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 300 · Decided 13 November 1968
M. C. Verghese v. T. J. Ponnan & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 300 · [1969] 2 S.C.R. 692
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 46/1967
- Decided
- 13 November 1968
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, V. RAMASWAMI, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 253(2); Evidence Act Section 122
Headnote
B Evidence Act (1 of 1872), s. 122-Letters from husband to wife con- ,i.l taining defamarory matter of third persons-Hu.rband prosecuted for defamation~Whether letters can be proved against husband-Subsequent declaration of nullity of marriage-If removes the bar against disclosure. The first contained defamatory imputations concern­ ing the appellant. The letters were handed over to the appellant and he filed a complaint fot defamation against the first resirondent. The Magistrate held that a communication between spouses of a matter de.- famatory of another did not amount to
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