Supreme Court of India

Bija & Ors v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2008] 1 S.C.R. 477
Bench C.K. Thakker and D.K. Jain JJ.
Decided 10 January 2008

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, the appeal deserves to be partly allowed as indicated above and is so allowed.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 rlw s. 34 - Murder - Prosecution case that marital discqrd· between wife and first husband - On intervention and pressure by Panchayat, c second marriage of wife with first husband's brother by karewa marriage though in-laws and former husband not in favour - Second husband also unhappy with wife - Few months thereafter, death of wife in matrimonial home -:- Conviction of in-laws, former husband and second husband uls 302 rlw s. 0 34 by courts below - Correctness of - Held: Death was homicidal in nature and was caused by asphyxia due to smothering - Second husband

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