Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 498A -- Abetment of suicide - Cruelty - Comments/taunting being made by accused that deceased had no knowledge of doing household chores including agricultural work, are not of such a nature to have derived the deceased to commit suicide - Accused acquitted...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 498A, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32 -- Abetment of suicide - Cruelty - Dying declaration - Call made by deceased to her mother in the absence of cogent and reliable evidence, cannot be treated as dying declaration...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 498A, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 113A -- Abetment of suicide - Cruelty - Presumption - Deceased committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance within 7 years of her marriage due to harassment allegedly made by accused - However, there is no evidence on record that accused used to demand dowry from deceased and tortured her..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304 -- Offence u/ss 304 Part-II, 34 IPC - Dead body of deceased recovered from the lake - PW1, approver alleges that wife and children of deceased caused death of deceased by strangulation and he assisted them in disposing off the dead body by putting in Lake - However, medical evidence not supported the evidence of PW1, as no ligature mark..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Double murder - Circumstantial evidence - Dead bodies of two females lying in the room which was bolted inside and recovered after breaking down the door - Said fact weakens the alleged theory of homicide - No injury of any kind except the mark of strangulation was found on the body of deceased persons - No reliable evidence..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 419, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120B, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Will - Issue about forgery and fraud regarding Will decided on merits by civil Court - FIR on same allegations that Will was forged and fabricated - Cannot be allowed - FIR quashed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A, 306 -- Dowry death - Cruelty - Abetment of suicide - Reduction of sentence - Accused is 99 years of age now - He already suffered sentence of one year nine month - Sentence of accused reduced to period already undergone by him, considering his age and role played by him...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 149 -- Murder - Prior enmity between parties due to election of Sarpanch - Incident occurred during winter evening - 17 accused allegedly assaulted complainant party - Identification of 17 accused persons would be extremely difficult, as it was dark - Only independent witness turned hostile and two eye witnesses not examined by..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 24, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Extra judicial confession - Accused confessed before brother of deceased that he throttled neck of deceased by lathi - However, medical evidence shows that strangulation was not found to have been done with an object like lathi and it was subjected with soft..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Last seen theory - Brother of deceased PW6, stated that he last saw deceased with accused - However, said fact is not disclosed in FIR, rather PW6 did not convey the same to anybody despite disappearance of his deceased brother - Last seen theory not reliable - Story of prosecution is full of..........
