Supreme Court of India
Major Singh & Anr. v. State of Punjab
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What the Court ordered
In the result, conviction of the appellants under Section 3048 IPC is set aside and this appeal is allowed.
Judgment, page 12
From the headnote
c Penal Code, 1860 - s. 3048 - Dowry death - Prosecution ulss. 3048 and 498A - Of husband, mother-in /aw, father-in-law and sister-in-law of the deceased - Trial court acquitted sister-in-Jaw of all the charges and convicted the other accused only u/s. 3048 - High Court confirmed o conviction of father and mother-in-laws while appeal of the husband abated due to his death - On appeal, held: Prosecution failed to prove demand of dowry or cruelty and that the deceased was subjected to dowry harassment 'soon before her death' - Offence u/s. 3048 not made out against the appellants-accused,
Authorities it was built on
- 2007 Rakesh Kumar Jain and Anr. v. Stateof U.P. Thr. Collector and Anr.
- 2005 Kamesh Panjiyar @ Kamlesh Panjiyar v. State of Bihar
- 2003 Hira Lal and Ors. v. State (govt. of Nct) Delhi.
- 2003 Kaliyaperumal and Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu
- 2007 Biswajit Halder @ Babu Halder and Ors. v. State of West Bengal
- 2008 Narayanamurthy v. State of Karnataka and Anr.
- 2004 State of Andhra Pradesh v. Raj Gopal Asawa and Anr.
- 2005 Harjit Singh v. State of Punjab
Where later benches applied it
- 2019 Mahesh Kumar v. State of Haryana
- 2021 Satbir Singh & Another v. State of Haryana
- 2018 Jagjit Singh v. State of Punjab
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to
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