Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 464 · Decided 27 September 2001
Satvir Singh and ORS. v. State of Punjab and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 464 · [2001] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 353
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1319/1998
- Decided
- 27 September 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, S.N. VARIAVA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 306, 113; Evidence Act
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: Section 306-Abetment-Conviction under-Victim survived attempt to commit suicide-Held, conviction not justified-Condition precedent .for punishment is that the o.ffence abetted should necessarily have been committed. Section 116 read with Section 306-Conviction under-Held, not to commit suicide on account of cruelty at nuptial home-Insufficiency of evidence to show that victim subjected to cruelty for demand of dowry soon be.fore attempt to commit suicide-Held, conviction notjust!fied-For invoking the section cruelty should have been caused 'Soon before her death
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)