Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - Wife committed suicide and left suicide note - Suicide note containing recital that she was fed up with life and nobody was responsible for suicide - Evidence showed that husband of the deceased was smack addict and unemployed - Husband insisted wife to part away with her earnings - Husband held guilty of..........
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 13(1)(d), 13(2) -- Corruption case - Demand of Rs.4, 000/- by ASI for not implicating of husband of complainant in a false case - Accused acquitted because of following infirmities : (a) Matter was reported by the complainant after five months of the alleged payment of bribe; (b) No recovery of tainted money was affected; (c)..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Mother of three months child - 90% burn injuries - Whether an accidental death - Clothes caught fire from flames emanating from kerosene stove - Kerosene stove used instead of gas stove available - Three months child must be breast fed and not fed with buffalo milk or some other milk - Child was given feed at 11.30 p.m. and did not..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166, 168, 173 -- Accident - Compensation - Death of a lady in road accident - Husband claimed that his deceased wife was earning Rs.10, 000/- per month from tailoring work - No evidence adduced to substantiate this plea - Tribunal assessed income of deceased at Rs.3, 000/- per month - Assessment held proper in the absence of proof of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 306 -- Abetment of suicide - Cruelty - Accused brother in law and co-sister of deceased - Husband of deceased an illiterate whereas deceased was educated one - Husband was doing the avocation of milk vending - Deceased being an educated had a desire to lead sophisticated life - Allegations against the accused that they taunted the..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 24, Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 18, Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Section 20 -- Interim maintenance - Taking temporary job after separation or upon neglect of husband to maintain the wife - Cannot be termed as her `income' - It is merely an amount..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 300 -- Sudden quarrel - To attract Exception 4 it has to be proved that upon sudden quarrel, on heat of passion fight took place - Exception 4 does not come into operation merely upon there being a verbal quarrel, with the victim not making any threatening gesture - There is a difference between quarrel and squabble - What is often..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 300 -- Murder - Proof - Husband committed murder of wife by stabbing - Testimony of child eye witness - Conviction can be based on the testimony of child witness if consistent with medical evidence and other corroborative evidence...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 300, 304 -- Part I - Murder - Proof - Husband requiring wife to return to Kerela and wife refusing to do so - Non agreement between husband and wife - Husband committed murder of wife - Held, mere non agreement was at best petty squabble between husband and wife - Not a provocation of a kind which would result in quarrel - Conviction of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty and harassment - Deceased physically beaten and treated with mental and physical cruelty on account of dowry demands by her parents-in-law, her husband, her brother-in-law and sister-in-law - Conviction u/s 498-A IPC upheld...........