Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1219 · Decided 24 October 2008
State of Andhra Pradesh v. M. Madhusudhan Rao
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1219 · [2008] 14 S.C.R. 1170
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1697/2008
- Decided
- 24 October 2008
- Bench
- C.K. THAKKER, D.K. JAIN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 49BA, 498A
Headnote
~- Penal Code, 1860 - s. 49BA - Cruelty - Meaning of - Held: For purpose of s. 49BA, every harassment is not "cru- I>, c elty" - Only when harassment is committed for coercing a woman or any other person related to her to meet an unlawful demand for property, that it amounts to Appeal - Criminal appeal - Interference by Appellate D Court - Scope - Held: Where approach of the lower court in considering the evidence is vitiated by some manifest illegal- 'f. ity or conclusion recorded by the court is such which could not have been possibly arrived at by any court acting
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