Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 52 · Decided 23 January 2013
Rajiv Thapar & ORS. v. Madan Lal Kapoor
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 52 · [2013] 3 S.C.R. 52
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 174/2013
- Decided
- 23 January 2013
- Bench
- D.K. JAIN, J.S. KHEHAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 3048, 498; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.482 - Quashing of proceedings -Scope - Death of married woman - C Complaint by deceased's father -Magistrate summoned the accused-husband and in-laws and committed the case to the Court of Sessions - Sessions Judge discharged the accused­ appellants - High - Held: On facts, not justified - Post-mortem o report, the Central Forensic Science Laboratory's report, as a/so the inquest report, sufficient to exculpate the appellants from the a/legations levelled in the complaint - Merely because the body of the deceased wife had fumed blue, not a
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