Supreme Court of India

Bhola Ram v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [2013] 12 S.C.R. 573
Bench Ranjana Prakash Desai and Madan B. Lokur JJ.
Decided 11 November 2013

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Penal Code, 1860 - ss.3048 & 498A - Sister-in-law of appellant committed suicide within few years of marriage - Allegations of dowry death - Conviction of appellant - Justification - Held: Not justified - Appellant deserves acquittal since no evidence inculpating him - No definite allegation made by any of the witnesses including PW-2 (deceased's father) or anybody from his family that appellant had demanded any additional dowry from him or anybody in his family or had treated the deceased with cruelty or in a humiliating manner so as to make him complicit in the dowry death - Appellant may

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