Supreme Court · 1995 INSC 519 · Decided 30 August 1995
State of Himachal Pradesh v. Nikku Ram and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1995 INSC 519 · [1995] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 177
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 984/1995
- Decided
- 30 August 1995
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, B.L. HANSARIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304B, 324, 306, 107, 498A, 3048; Evidence Act Section 113A
Headnote
Penal Code 1860-Sections 304B, 324-Autopsy revealing death by naphthalene poisoning and two wounds found on person of deceased-Wliether offence of dowry death made out-Held, wounds on the person of deceased coul<! not have caused death-Death was by naphthalene poisoning-Evidence on record does Trial-Sentence-Penal Code-Section 324-Held, accused being over 80 years, substantive imprisonment not called for 12 years after commission of offence-Fine of Rs. 3000, to be made over to parents of D deceased-Oiminal Procedure Code 1973, Section 357-Dowry death. Penal Code 1860-Sections 306,
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