Supreme Court of India
Mandakini Diwan and Anr. v. The High Court of Chhattisgarh & Ors.
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Judgment, page 10
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Issue for Consideration Matter pertains to investigation as regards the suspicious death of the wife of senior judicial officer. Headnotes† Constitution of India – Arts. 226, 136 – Investigation by independent agency – Death of the wife of senior judicial officer – Case of the appellants-mother and the brother of the deceased that the death was suspicious and was not a case of simple suicide, and apprehended that the husband being a senior judicial officer had managed the post mortem in which the cause of death was shown to be suicide by hanging – Several complaints by appellants – Neither
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