Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 336 · Decided 17 April 2015
Monju Roy & ORS. v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 336 · [2015] 6 S.C.R. 275
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1797/2012
- Decided
- 17 April 2015
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, ADARSH KUMAR GOEL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3048, 498A, 306, 304B
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860- ss. 3048, 498A and 306 - Dowry death - Prosecution against husband, his mother and his c siblings - Prosecution abated against mother due tn her death - Conviction by courts below - Husband-accused undergone the sentence awarded-Appeal by the accused­ siblings of husband- been committed not only when 'demand of dowry' is D made, but also when 'cruelty or harassment' for or in connection with such demand, is made - There is no material to show that the appellants-accused harassed the victim resulting in her death - Moreover, the possibility of exaggeration in
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