Supreme Court · [2013] 1 S.C.R. 80 · Decided 3 January 2013
Vajresh Venkatray Anvekar v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- [2013] 1 S.C.R. 80
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 12/2013
- Decided
- 3 January 2013
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 306, 34; CrPC Section 313; Evidence Act Section 113A; Constitution
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 498A & 306 - Married woman committed suicide by consuming poison within seven years C of marriage - Acquittal of accused-husband by trial court - Reversal of acquittal by High Court - Justification - Held: Justified -Medical evidence and the evidence of PWs revealed that to the death and she received eye injury and injury on her cheek - The injuries o were certainly not self-inflicted - Victim committed suicide within seven years from the date of her marriage in her matrimonial home - Impact of this circumstance was clearly missed by the trial court - Evidence
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