Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 377 · Decided 8 July 2010
Uday Chakraborty & ORS. v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 377 · [2010] 7 S.C.R. 1048
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1733/2008
- Decided
- 8 July 2010
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, SWATANTER KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 498A; CrPC Section 161
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: c ss. 304-B and 498-A - Dowry death - Conviction of husband and his relatives -Plea that FIR not containing any allegation of demand of dowry, ingredients of offences charged were not satisfied - HELD: Although the father of the deceased who lodged the complaint in a tragic the facts, the subsequent statements of different witnesses have fairly established that the deceased was tortured and harassed for dowry - Execution of ' Chuktiparta' at the time of marriage itself demonstrates that there was a clear intention on the part of accused to take E dowry in and
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