Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 284 · Decided 27 February 2019
Sunil Kumar Gupta and Others v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 284 · [2019] 4 S.C.R. 875
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 395/2019
- Decided
- 27 February 2019
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, R. SUBHASH REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 3, 4, 498A; CrPC Section 319
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.319 - Summoning of appellants for offence under s.302 IPC - Allegation of dowry death of victim-deceased - Prosecution case was that the dying declaration of the victim-deceased was that she was set on fire on account of demand of dowry by her During course of trial, application under s.319 was filed by prosecution seeking to summon the appellants/accused for offence punishable under s.302 stating that their names were mentioned in the FIR and also in the statement of PW-1 and PW-3 - Trial Court held that prima facie evidence was
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