Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 324 · Decided 2 August 2002
Vikas v. Sta Te of Rajas Than
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 324 · [2002] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 435
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 299/2001
- Decided
- 2 August 2002
- Bench
- M.B. SHAH, B.P. SINGH, H.K. SEMA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Evidence Act
Headnote
B Penal Code, I 860 : Sections 302 rlw I 20-B, 304-B, 364 and 498: Murder-Wife tortured and murdered by husband for not bringing adequate dowry--CoTIViction of husband and her parents-High Court maintained the C conviction-Appreciation of circumstantial evidence by High Court­ Correctness circumstances connecting the accused with the crime though, it is not necessary for it to re-appreciate the evidence-­ Evidence Act, I 872-Circumstantial evidence. According to the prosecution, accused-appellant had allegedly tortured his wife for not bringing adequate dowry, so she came to
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