Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1073 · Decided 12 October 2022
Mariano Anto Bruno & ANR. v. The Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1073 · [2022] 14 S.C.R. 889
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1628/2022
- Decided
- 12 October 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, KRISHNA MURARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 306, 107
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 498A, 306 and 107 - Marriage of Appellant No.1 (husband) & deceased was solemnized in 2005 - A male child was born out of wedlock in 2007 - Prosecution case that Appellant No.1 caused immense mental torture to deceased by compelling her to have with second pregnancy and that deceased was subjected to continuous cruelty which drove her to commit suicide - Trial court convicted appellant No.1 & mother-in-law of deceased u/s 498A & 306 IPC - High Court upheld the conviction of appellants - Held: To convict
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