Supreme Court of India

Thanu Ram v. State of M.P.

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Reported as [2010] 12 S.C.R. 710
Bench Altamas Kabir and A.K. Patnaik JJ.
Decided 5 October 2010

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Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 498A, 306 and 107 - Married woman committed suicide by sprinkling kerosene upon herself and setting herself on fire - Suicide committed by victim in her 4th year of marriage when she was six months' pregnant - Victim made dying declarq.tion before Naib Tahsildar (PW9) in presence of Doctor, PW11, who testified that the victim was in a fit mental condition to make the dying O declaration befom PW9 - Evidence of the victim's parents (PWs2 and 3) and brothers (PWs7 and 13) - Conviction of victim's husband under ss. 498A and 306 - Justification of - Held: On facts,

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 distinguished

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