Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 523 · Decided 28 July 2011
Sudarshan Kumar v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 523 · [2011] 9 S.C.R. 571
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1201/2007
- Decided
- 28 July 2011
- Bench
- MARKANDEY KATJU, C.K. PRASAD (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 306
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860: s.302 - Abetment to suicide - Allegation that wife of the appellant committed suicide on the C ground that she was harassed, maltreated and beaten by the appellant as she could not conceive and bear a child - On an earlier occasion she was sent to father's house where she due to intervention of the panchayat members and the promise of the appellant that he D would not harass her again and his request for pardon, she came back but was again harassed and tormented and she committed suicide - Courts below convicted and ordered sentence of seven years rigorous
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