Supreme Court of India

Pinakin Mahipatray Rawal v. State of Gujarat

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Reported as [2013] 10 S.C.R. 306

Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and Pinaki Chandra Ghose JJ.

Decided 9 September 2013

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Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 498A and 306 - Married woman committing suicide within 7 years of marriage, allegedly due to extra-marital relationship between her husband ( -1) and husband's colleague ( -2) - Suicide note left by the deceased - Conviction of -1 ulss. 498A and 306 - Justification - Held: On facts, not justified - -1 did not ill-treat the deceased, either o physically or mentally demanding dowry, who was living with -1, in the matrimonial home till the date, she committed suicide - The alleged extra-marital relationship was not of such a nature as to drive the wife to commit suicide -

Authorities it was built on

2002 Girdhar Shankar Tawade v. State of Maharashtra cited by 6
2002 Gananath Pattanaik v. State of Orissa cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2016 K.V. Prakash Babu v. State of Karnataka relied on
2019 Gurjit Singh v. State of Punjab referred to
2018 Joseph Shine v. Union of India referred to
2015 Ghusabhai Raisangbhai Chorasiya & Ors. v. State of Gujarat referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to

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