Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 673 · Decided 5 October 2010
Thanu Ram v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 673 · [2010] 12 S.C.R. 710
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 5885/2009
- Decided
- 5 October 2010
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, A.K. PATNAIK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 306, 107; Evidence Act Section 113A, 32
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 498A, 306 and 107 - Married woman committed suicide by sprinkling kerosene upon C herself and setting herself on fire - Suicide committed by victim in her 4th year of marriage when she was six months' pregnant - Victim made dying declarq.tion before Naib Tahsildar (PW9) in that the victim was in a fit mental condition to make the dying O declaration befom PW9 - Evidence of the victim's parents (PWs2 and 3) and brothers (PWs7 and 13) - Conviction of victim's husband under ss. 498A and 306 - Justification of - Held: On facts, justified - Ordinarily, a woman in an
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