Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 933 · Decided 19 October 2023
Paranagouda and Another v. The State of Karnataka and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 933 · [2023] 15 S.C.R. 923
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3274/2023
- Decided
- 19 October 2023
- Bench
- S. RAVINDRA BHAT, ARAVIND KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3, 4, 306, 498A, 304B; CrPC Section 215
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: Whether the courts below were justifi ed in convicting and sentencing the accused for the off ences punishable u/ss. 498A, 304B read with s. 34 IPC and ss. 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act; whether the conviction of the accused u/s. be sustainable; and whether accused can be convicted for the off ence punishable u/s. 306 IPC though not charged for said off ence. Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 498A, 304B rw s. 34, 306 - Cruelty against married women - Abetment of suicide - Accused-husband and in-laws subjected the
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