Supreme Court of India

Mariano Anto Bruno & Anr. v. The Inspector of Police

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Reported as [2022] 14 S.C.R. 889
Bench M. R. Shah and Krishna Murari JJ.
Decided 12 October 2022

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that Trial Court wrongly convicted the Appellants and the High Court was also not justified in upho lding the conviction of the Appellants under Sections 306 and 498A IPC.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 498A, 306 and 107 – Marriage of Appellant No.1 (husband) & deceased was solemnized in 2005 – male child was born out of wedlock in 2007 – Prosec ution case that Appellant No.1 caused immense mental torture to deceased b y compelling her to have another child despite her miscar riage with second pregnancy and that deceased was subjected to continuous cruelty which drove her to commit suicide – Trial c ourt convicted appellant No.1 & mother-in-law of deceased u/s 498A & 306 IPC – High Court upheld the conviction of appellants – Held: To convict a person u/s.306 IPC, there

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on

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