Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 972 · Decided 17 March 2015
Naval Kishore v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 972 · [2015] 2 S.C.R. 1012
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2246/2011
- Decided
- 17 March 2015
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, PRAFULLA C. PANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 302, 201, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.498A, 302, 201 - Conviction and sentence under - Prosecution case that wife harassed and subject to cruelty by her husband and in-laws - Death of wife by burn injuries - Conviction and sentence of 0 husband u/ss. 498A, 302 and 201 by courts below - On appeal, held: It is to burn the body was made in order to cause disappearance of evidence of murder - There is trustworthy evidence of brother of deceased as also her neighbours that E she was subjected to physical cruelty- In view thereof there is little force in the submission of the husband that wife
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