Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 560 · Decided 29 September 2004
State of Rajasthan v. Teg Bahadur and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 560 · [2004] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 840
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 639/1998
- Decided
- 29 September 2004
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, AR. LAKSHMANAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 304; CrPC Section 161; Evidence Act Section 304
Headnote
c Penal Code, 1860-Sections 498A, 304-B and 201-Death within 7 years of marriage-Under unnatural circumstances-Allegation of demand of dowry-Recovery of articles-Not proved to be belonging to deceased­ Witnesses not fully corroborating prosecution case-Evidence regarding demand of dowry Court drawing presumption u/ s I 13-B of Evidence Act-Acquittal by High Court-On appeal, held: Acquittal justified as one of the main ingredients of the offence of dowry demand was absent-On the basis of evidence it could not be treated to have D been proved that accused actually demanded dowry
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