Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 581 · Decided 25 April 2025
Shakuntla Devi v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 581 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 1914
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1131/2018
- Decided
- 25 April 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3, 4, 306, 304B, 498A
Headnote
Issue arose as to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court wherein the appellant's conviction u/ss.304B and 498A IPC and ss.3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 was converted into that u/s.306 IPC. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.306, Act, 1961 - ss.3, 4 - Abetment of suicide - Dowry death - Death of the victim in her matrimonial home - FIR by complainant- father of the victim alleging that the appellant-mother-in-law of the victim used to mentally and physically torture her for getting less
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