Supreme Court of India
Sandeep Kumar and Others v. State of Uttarakhand and Another
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that second respondent should not be permitted to draw support from the statement in the Affidavit of the second appellant accompanying the Bail Application of his wife to the effect that the deceased herself took poison.
Judgment, page 37
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860 – s.304B – Dowry Death – Poisoning alleged – Appellants (husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law) acquitted by trial court – Acquittal set aside by High Court – On appeal, held: PW1 (father of the victim) admitted that there was no demand for dowry before or at the time of marriage – Version about the demand for Rs.10 lakhs by first appellant (husband) is wholly unacceptable – Further, there is no evidence that the deceased died of poisoning – Police did not recover any poison from the appellants or their house – FSL report categorically rules out the presence of any poison…
Authorities it was built on
- 1984 Sharad Birdhi Chand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra
- 2008 Ghurey Lal v. State of U.P.
- 1986 Bharat Singh v. Management of New Delhi Tuberculosis Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, New Delhi and Others
- 1959 Anant Chintaman Lagu v. The State of Bombay
- 2002 Jaipal v. State of Haryana
- 1988 Bhupinder Singh v. State of Punjab
- 2013 Chhotan Sao & Another v. State of Bihar
- 2012 Shanmughan v. State of Kerala
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