Supreme Court of India
T. Aruntperunjothi v. State through S.H.O., Pondicherry
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We are of the opinion that demand of dowry or any harassment being the cause for the death of the deceased, cannot be said to have been established beyond all reasonable doubt.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860: Section 304 -Dowry death-Held, it is necessary for the prosecution to establish that the deceased must have been subjected to cruelty or harassment by her husband or relative of her husband soon before her death. Appellant and the deceased (wife) were married on 04.09.1992. She admittedly committed suicide on 14.03.1994. She was brought back from her maternal home in February 1994. According to the appellant, the deceased proposed to go back to her mother's house to see her mother which he refused stating that she had come back only a month back. At the time when the
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- 2011 Bansi Lal v. State of Haryana
- 2008 Tarsem Singh v. State of Punjab
- 2007 Devi Lal v. State of Rajasthan
- 2007 Raja Lal Singh v. The State of Jharkhand
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