Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 214 · Decided 27 March 2014
Mangat Ram v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 214 · [2014] 4 S.C.R. 988
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 696/2009
- Decided
- 27 March 2014
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, VIKRAMAJIT SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 306; Evidence Act Section 113A
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.498A and 306 - Married woman died of burn injuries at her matrimonial home few months after C marriage, while appellant-husband was away at his place of work - No evidence to show whether it was an accidental death or whether the deceased had committed suicide - Conviction of - Held: Not justified - Circumstances of the case as pointed out by D the prosecution totally insufficient to hold that the appellant had abetted his wife to commit suicide and the circumstances enumerated u/s. 113A of the Evidence Act also not satisfied - Every reason to believe
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