Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 890 · Decided 16 December 2010
Sanjay Kumar Jain v. State of Delhi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 890 · [2010] 14 S.C.R. 1135
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2400/2010
- Decided
- 16 December 2010
- Bench
- DALVEER BHANDARI, H.L. GOKHALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3048, 302, 304; Evidence Act Section 1138
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 3048 and 302 - Murder and dowry death - Death of married woman within fourteen months A B of marriage - Ante mortem bodily injuries on her body - C Husband charged ulss. 302 and 3048 - Held: There was no consistency in the prosecution version with regard offence u/ s. 302 u/s. 302 - The parents of the deceased however testified that deceased was subjected to consistent cruelty and harassment by her D husband in connection with demand for dowry soon before her death - Ingredients of s. 3048 having been satisfied, husband convicted u/s. 3048 and sentenced to 9
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