Supreme Court of India

Smt. Gargi v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2019] 13 S.C.R. 1
Bench A. M. Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari JJ.
Decided 19 September 2019

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Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 – Conviction under – Prosecution case was that appellant had killed her husband by strangulation and with the help of co-accused persons (her brothers), thereafter, hanged the dead body in one of the rooms in the house, as if it were a case of suicide – The matter rested on circumstantial evidence where, according to the prosecution, the relations of the deceased (husband) and the appellant (wife) were too strained; the deceased had stated threat perceptions that his wife might kill him, for she was involved in illicit relations and was desirous of grabbing his

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