Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 6 · Decided 3 January 2022
Rajendra Bhagat v. State of Jharkhand & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 6 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 473
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2/2022
- Decided
- 3 January 2022
- Bench
- DINESH MAHESHWARI, VIKRAM NATH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 323, 417, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 498A - Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty - Conviction of the appellant- husband u/s 498A and imposition of simple imprisonment for three years - Few years later, appellant and his wife entered into a settlement, resolved all a happy conjugal life - High Court took note of the settlement, and reduced the sentence to the period of imprisonment already undergone, however, upheld the conviction u/s 498A - On appeal, held: Taking note of the terms of settlement which include the undertaking of the
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