Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 546 · Decided 27 August 2010
Shaikh Sattar v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 546 · [2010] 10 S.C.R. 503
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 928/2007
- Decided
- 27 August 2010
- Bench
- B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, S.S. NIJJAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 498A
Headnote
A 8 Penal Code, 1860: ss.302, 498A - Conviction based on circumstantial evidence - Deceased harassed by her c husband in connection with the demand of money and frequently beaten up by him due to non-fulfillment of demand - Deceased found dead in the interior room of the house with . . marks of stone with blood stains lying next to her body - Her clothes were also blood stained o - Concurrent finding of courts below holding the husband guilty - Plea of alibi and accidental death disbelieved by courts below - On appeal, held: Medical evidence belied the theory of accidental death - No
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