Supreme Court of India

Sher Singh @ Partapa v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2015] 1 S.C.R. 29
Bench Vikrt.Majit Sen and Kurian Joseph JJ.
Decided 9 January 2015

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the prosecution has not shown/presented and or proved even by preponderance of probabilities that the deceased had been treated with cruelty emanating from or H 54 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [2015] 1 S.C.R. A founded on dowry demands.

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 3048 and 498A - Dowry death - Prosecution case that victim-wife committed suicide due to harassment for dowry by her husband and in-laws within one year of marriage - Two months prior to her death she informed her brothers of cruelty connected with dowry demand - Conviction and sentence of husband, brother-in-law and father-in-law of the victim u/ss. 3048 and 498A by the trial court - High Court acquitting the brother-in-law and father-in- o law of the victim, however, upholding the conviction and sentence of the husband - On appeal, held: Once the concomitants of dowry

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