Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 911 · Decided 17 December 2021
Parvati Devi v. The State of Bihar Now State of Jharkhand & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 911 · [2021] 9 S.C.R. 711
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 574/2012
- Decided
- 17 December 2021
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, SURYA KANT, HIMA KOHLI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304B, 201; Evidence Act Section 113B
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 304B and 201 r/w s. 34 - Dowry death - Prosecution case was that the victim-deceased daughter of informant (PW-3) was married to A-1 - Within few months of marriage, A-1, his father (A-2) and his mother (A-3) started harassing motor cycle - They threatened the victim that if the demand was not fulfilled then they would throw her out of matrimonial home and get A-1 married to someone else - Similar message was conveyed to PW-3 by his son-in-law (PW-2) with whom A-1 had raised the issue of insufficient dowry
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