Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1051 · Decided 29 August 2025
SMT. Bhagwati Devi v. State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1051 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 2289
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2616/2014
- Decided
- 29 August 2025
- Bench
- ARAVIND KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498, 34
Headnote
Issue arose whether the order of conviction u/s.498-A IPC and consequential sentence imposed on the appellant-mother-in-law can be sustained on the basis of the material evidence. Penal Code, 1860 - s.498-A - Husband or relative of husband of a Dowry demand - Case of the complainant-father that his daughter was found dead inside the matrimonial home, and the accused persons- father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law of the daughter were present in the house; that the daughter had committed suicide by hanging herself; that
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