Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 717 · Decided 23 September 2024
Parveen Kumar v. The State of Himachal Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 717 · [2024] 10 S.C.R. 54
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1014/2013
- Decided
- 23 September 2024
- Bench
- BELA M. TRIVEDI, SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 306, 498; CrPC Section 107, 151, 125; Evidence Act Section 113A
Headnote
Issue arose, if the High Court was justified in convicting and sentencing the husband u/ss. 498A and 306 IPC for subjecting the victim-wife to cruelty and forcing her to commit suicide. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.498-A and 306 - Husband or relative subjecting her to cruelty - Abetment of suicide - Evidence Act, 1872 - s.113A - Presumption as to abetment of suicide by a married woman - Victim- wife committed suicide by consuming tablets of aluminum phosphide-insecticide within two years of marriage -
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