Supreme Court of India
Devender Singh v. State of Haryana
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that it is a fit case where the appellant is entitled to benefit of doubt.
Judgment, page 4
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860: c ss. 306 and 498- -Married woman died of burn injuries-Her son and father-in-law also received burn injuries, the latter while saving her-Cause of suicide alleged to be demand by her husband of money for raising some construction-High Court holding that purported demand did not strictly .. fall within the definition of dowry but convicting the husband-Held, as the ,fttrported demand made by the husband had no direct nexus or immediate cause for commission of suicide by the ·wife, it would not amount to abetment of commission of such suicide-Husband being entitled to benefit
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