Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 337 · Decided 17 April 2015
M.NARAYAN v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 337 · [2015] 4 S.C.R. 226
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1207/2012
- Decided
- 17 April 2015
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 304; Evidence Act Section 113A, 1138
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 498A, 304 8 - Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 - ss. 3, 4, 6 - Death of wife by hanging from the roof - Occurrence of incident barely two years after her marriage with the appellant-husband - Death in suspicious o circumstances re/atable to the constant demand for dowry and - Acquittal by trial court- However, reversal of order of acquittal by High Court - Conviction and sentence of appellant­ husband for commission of offences u!ss. 498A and 3048 E and ss. 3, 4, 6 of the 1961 Act- On appeal, held: Prosecution had been able to prove the culpability of the
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