Supreme Court of India

Charan Singh @ Charanjit Singh v. The State of Uttarakhand

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Bench Abhay S. Oka and Rajesh Bindal JJ.
Decided 20 April 2023

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that the pre-requisites to raise presumption under Section 304B IPC and Section 113B of the Indian Evidence Act having not been fulfilled, the conviction of the appellant cannot be justified.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 : ss. 304 , 498 and 201 – Dowry Death – Presumption as to dowry death – Prosecution case that woman married two years ago, killed by her husband-appellant and in- laws for dowry – Death was unnatural and the victim was cremated without even informing her parents – Trial court convicted the appellant, brother-in-law and mother-in-law u/ss. 304 , 498 and 201 and sentenced them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for ten years u/s 304B, rigorous imprisonment for two years respectively u/ ss. 498A and 201 – In appeal, the conviction and sentence of the brother-in-law and…

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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