Supreme Court of India

Sandeep Kumar and Others v. State of Uttarakhand and Another

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Bench R. F. Nariman, K. M. Joseph and Aniruddha Bose JJ.
Decided 2 December 2020

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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…

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