Supreme Court of India

Joshinder Yadav v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [2014] 1 S.C.R. 567
Bench Ranjana Prakash Desai and J. Chelameswar JJ.
Decided 20 January 2014

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the doctor ought to have sent the viscera to the FSL when he was requested to do so.

Judgment, page 21

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Penal Code, 1860: s.302 rlw s.149, s.498A, s.201 - Dowry death - /legation that victim-deceased was harassed by accused-in-laws for dowry and one day they poisoned her and threw her dead body in river- Conviction by courts below - Appeal by accused-brother-in-law on the ground that he had separated from his brothers and was not party to ill treatment meted out to the deceased and to the murder - Held: The evidence of PW-9 and 10, the father and the brother of the deceased, to effect that the deceased was subjected to cruelty and harassment did not suffer any dent and, therefore was reliable -

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