Supreme Court · 1992 INSC 178 · Decided 21 July 1992
State of Karnataka v. Lakshmanaiah
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1992 INSC 178 · [1992] 3 S.C.R. 579
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 373/1981
- Decided
- 21 July 1992
- Bench
- KULDIP SINGH, K. RAMASWAMY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 30o, 302, 380
Headnote
B ---1 Indian Penal Code, 1860: Section 30o-Murder of wife-Acquittal of husband by High Court~ High Court not considering P. Ws. evidence of husband's maltreatment and c - assault of wife for money-Rejecting evidence on flimsy ground of discrepan- cies-Factum of accused absconding not was tried for the murder of his wife and also for stealing his mother-in-law's property. The prosecution alleged D that the respondent accused used to demand money from his moiher-in~ law through his wife and he had executed two promissory notes for Rs. 2,000 and Rs.3,000 in favour of his
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