Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 436 · Decided 3 June 2016
Satish Shetty v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 436 · [2016] 3 S.C.R. 145
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1358/2008
- Decided
- 3 June 2016
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, SHIVA KIRTI SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 306; Evidence Act Section 113A
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 498A, 306 - Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 - Commission of suicide by 25 year old women within two and a half years of marriage - Victim having 10 month old son and a pregnancy of twenty ll'eek - Acquittal of husband and his parents for offences punishable u!ss. 3, 4, 6 of the Court convicted the husband u!s. 498A with rigorous imprisonment of three years and u!s. 306 with RI for five years - 011 appeal, held: There was good explanation for the delay in lodging the FIR - Victims closest telation-mother was a poor helpless lady and deceased had left behind children,
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