Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 439 -- Bail - Dowry death - Abatement - Deceased committing suicide owing to certain dispute with petitioner - Dispute was not of grave nature justifying extreme step of suicide - No independent evidence proving dowry demand - Petitioner is in jail since 13.04.2011 - Trial may take long time - Bail allowed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3,4, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32 -- Dying declaration - Deceased set on fire by mother-in-law who was aged 70 years old and no one else was present at the time of incident - Held, it is a basic human instinct that no one gives up easily when it comes to taking away one's life - Deceased..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32, 113B -- Dowry death - Dying declaration - Deceased died within 5-1/2 years of her marriage - She was residing in her parental house at the time of occurrence - Dying declaration creates many doubts which stands unexplained - It also indicates of tutoring and product of imagination - There is..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 113B -- Dowry death - Deceased died within 5-1/2 years of her marriage - There was demand of dowry 8-9 months prior to occurrence and at that time she was residing in her parental house - No evidence on record as to what actual dowry was given at the time of marriage - No evidence that after coming..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - Conviction - No evidence that appellant has in any way instigated or aided or provoked her wife to commit suicide - Neighbours and relatives of complainant had not corroborated prosecution version - Allegation of cruelty and demand of dowry vague and ill-founded - PW3 stated that he has never seen any cruelty..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B -- Demand - Plea that demand was not in connection with marriage - No evidence to show that demand was for non dowry purposes - Held, demand falls within the ambit of word `dowry'...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 216, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 306, 498A -- Modification of charge - No evidence of demand of dowry - Accused not present at time of suicide by wife at parental house - Accused rightly discharged u/s 304-B IPC - Charges u/ss 306 and 498-A sustained...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 227 -- Application for discharge dismissed - Revision against - Sufficient material on record to suggest that soon before her death deceased was continuously harassed by accused on account of dowry demand - Trial Court after recording prima facie satisfaction observed that there are sufficient grounds for framing charge u/s 498-A and..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 304B -- Dowry death - Appreciation of evidence - Appellant alleged to have committed murder of his wife - Convicted u/ss 498-A, 304-B IPC - Challenge thereto - As per post mortem report deceased died due to strangulation - Recovery of one pair of scissors from appellant's almirah and a piece of chunni from drain of ground floor of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B 498A -- Dowry death - Allegations that accused husband and father-in-law of deceased wife committed dowry death - Mother-in-law and brother-in-law of deceased also arrayed as accused - Offence alleged to have been committed within 7 years of marriage - Contention of accused that deceased committed suicide, deceased being 26 years of..........
