Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1241 · Decided 17 November 2009
. Sau Panchashlla Dada Messhram v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1241 · [2009] 15 S.C.R. 994
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 230/2003
- Decided
- 17 November 2009
- Bench
- B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, J.M. PANCHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34
Headnote
Penal ·code, 1860: s.304 Part llrlw s.34 - Parents of,two year girl child confined her in bathroom for 14 days without food and water- c Child died due to starvation - Conviction of child's parents by trial court uls.302rlws.34-Altered by High Court to one uls:304 Part II rlw s. 34 - to 6 years R. I. - On appeal by mother, held: The child's.mother (appellant) and father had definite knowledge that their act of confining the child D in bathroom would result in her starvation which was likely to cause her death - Hence, conviction of appellant-mother ul s.304, Part JI just
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