Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 203 · Decided 5 April 2006
T. Aruntperunjothi v. State Through S.H.O., Pondicherry
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 203 · [2006] 3 S.C.R. 799
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 779/2005
- Decided
- 5 April 2006
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, P.P. NAOLEKAR (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 3048; CrPC Section 176
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860: Section 304 B-Dowry death-Held, it is necessary for the prosecution to establish that the deceased must have been subjected to cruelty or C harassment by her husband or relative of her husband soon before her death. Appellant and the deceased (wife) were married on 04.09.1992. home in February 1994. According to the appellant, the deceased proposed to go back to her mother's house to see her mother which he refused D stating that she had come back only a month back. At the time when the deceased committed suicide neither the appellant nor his mother was present in the
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