Supreme Court of India

Bhupendra v. State of Madhya Pradesh

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Reported as [2013] 12 S.C.R. 269
Bench Ranjana Prakash Desai and Madan B. Lokur JJ.
Decided 11 November 2013

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PENAL CODE 1860: ss.498, 304- and 306 - Demand for dowry by bride's husband and his parents - Death of bride by consuming poisonous substance - Conviction of husband by courts below - Upheld. c ss.304- and s.306 - Dowry death - Chemical examination of viscera - Held: Not mandatory in every case of a dowry death - Even when a viscera report is sought for, its absence is not necessarily fatal to the case of the prosecution when an unnatural death punishable u/s 304- or u/s 306 takes place -- In a case of unnatural death inviting s.304- /PC (read with the presumption uls 113-8 of Evidence Act)

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