Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 411 · Decided 19 September 2012
Pudhu Raja & ANR. v. State, REP. BY Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 411 · [2012] 8 S.C.R. 740
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1517/2008
- Decided
- 19 September 2012
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860- ss. 302 rlw. s. 34, 304(b) and 201 - c Prosecution under - Death caused of a woman by her husband (A-2) and mother-in-law - By putting her on fire - Circumstantial evidence - Demand of dowry by accused alleged as motive - Trial court acquitting the .accused on in the deposition of-eye-witnesses, 0 delay in lodging FIR and concluding that it was a case of suicide - High Court convicting the accused - On appeal, held: High court rightly convicted the accused - There was sufficient evidence to indicate possibility of dowry harassment and death -
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