Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 653 · Decided 19 September 2014
Sri Chand and Another v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 653 · [2014] 11 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1816/2009
- Decided
- 19 September 2014
- Bench
- M.Y. EQBAL, ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 304-8 and 498-A - Dowry death A B - Prosecution against husband and parents-in-law (the appellants) of the deceased - Conviction by Courts below - C Appeal by the parents-in-law - Held: The act of the appellants indicate their guilty state of mind - Hence cannot escape deceased - Plea of alibi by one of the accused also not proved. Dismissing the appeal, the Court D HELD: 1. The fact that the accused persons were found missing from the house and also the fact that they refrained from intimating the death of the deceased to her parents are two strong facts which
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