Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 151 · Decided 22 February 2023
Vahitha v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 151 · [2023] 3 S.C.R. 942
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 762/2012
- Decided
- 22 February 2023
- Bench
- DINESH MAHESHWARI, BELA M. TRIVEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 313; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Conviction under - Strangulation of child - Prosecution case that appellant strangulated her five year old child to death while PW-1 (mother-in-law of appellant) had gone out of the house - As per the FIR, when PW-1 came back she saw the appellant tie the outer end of her saree tightly around the neck of the child - During her testimony PW-1 stated that she found the appellant sitting silently next to the deceased child when she came back to the house - Upon hearing PW-1 shout; daughters of PW-1 i.e. PW-2
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