Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1161 · Decided 30 September 2009
Sonali Mukherjee v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1161 · [2009] 14 S.C.R. 858
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 673/2009
- Decided
- 30 September 2009
- Bench
- B.N. AGRAWAL, V.S. SIRPURKAR, H.L. DATTU (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34
Headnote
'C Pf!nal Code, 1860 - ss. 302134, 304 (Part I) - Murder - Allegation of illegal intimacy between A-1-wife of deceased and A-2, and as a result commission of murder of deceased - Death due to gardenal poisoning - Presence of barbiturate and alcohol in viscera - Conviction uls. 302134 - High conviction of A-1 altered to s. 304 (Part I) D - On appeal, held: No evidence to prove that the death by I i ,. poisoning was homicidal - Conviction was on basis of evidence of servant of deceased who was not a reliable witness - Evidence about the illegal intimacy between A-1 and A-2 not
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