Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1175 · Decided 8 October 2009
Mankamma v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1175 · [2009] 14 S.C.R. 1152
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1198/2003
- Decided
- 8 October 2009
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, DEEPAK VERMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 306
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 306 - Abetment of suicide - c Conviction of mother-in-law uls. 306 for abetting suicide of her daughter-in~law by courls below - Correctness of - Held: · Evidence of witnesses as also last letter written by deceased to her husband and letter written by deceased D committed suicide only and only because of the so-called ill- treatment by mother-in-law - With regard to offence uls. 306 much stronger evidence is required - Evidence falls shorl of the required standard of proof- Thus, findings by courts below set aside and accused is acquitted. E
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