Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 862 · Decided 24 July 2008
Rajbabu & ANR. v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 862 · [2008] 11 S.C.R. 270
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 895/2003
- Decided
- 24 July 2008
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Evidence Act Section 113
Headnote
Penal Code, .1860 - ss. 306 and 498-A - . Prosecution c under - Of husband, mother-in-.Jaw and father-in-law - Sui- cide committed within seven years of marriage - No direct evidence - In dying declaration deceased exculpating all the accused - Trial Court convicting husband and mother-in-law on deceased on the date of D the occurrence and acquitting father-in-Jaw - Order upheld by I High Court - On appeal, held: On account of death of hus- l band, his appeal abated - Conviction of Mother-in-Jaw not jus- ~._.,. tified - She was entitled to benefit of doubt - The Jetter or the evidence of
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