Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 11 · Decided 5 January 2011
Narwinder Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 11 · [2011] 1 S.C.R. 110
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 590/2005
- Decided
- 5 January 2011
- Bench
- B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, S.S. NIJJAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 306; CrPC; Evidence Act
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: c s.306 - Suicidal death of a pregnant woman in her matrimonial home within 4 years of her marriage - Husband and in-laws convicted by trial court u/s 304-B - High Court converting the conviction of husband u/s 306 and acquitting D the in-laws - HELD: There was no evidence of any before the death - High Court concluded that ;. deceased had not committed suicide on account of demands for dowry but due to harassment caused by her husband and it had compounded the acute depression from which E deceased was suffering after the murder cf her father - High Court was fully
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