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JAGGU SINGH vs STATE OF U.P on 8 April, 2010

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Crl.A. No.-001168-001168 - 2003Official PDFBench Harjit Singh Bedi, Jagdish Madhurlal PanchalAdvocates VISHWAJIT SINGH | PRAVEEN SWARUP
Crl. App. No. 1168 of 2003
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1168 OF 2003
JAGGU SINGHAPPELLANT
VERSUS
STATE OF U.P. & ANR.RESPONDENTS
O R D E R

1. This appeal is against the concurrent finding of the

trial court as well as the High Court whereby respondent

No. 2, the husband has been acquitted for the offences

under Sections 304B and 498A of the Indian Penal Code for

having caused the dowry death of his wife about two years

after the marriage. Both the courts have noted that a

suicide note had been written by the deceased shortly

before her death in which she had observed that nobody was

responsible for her death either from the side of her in-

laws or from the side of her parents and she was

committing suicide as she had lost interest in life and

that nobody should be held responsible for her death. The

courts below have also noted that the attempt of the

appellant herein Jaggu Singh, the father of the deceased, Crl. App. No. 1168 of 2003

to bring in evidence in Court with regard to the cruelty

meted out to his late daughter could not be believed for

the simple reason that he had made no such statement under

Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. We are,

therefore, of the opinion that in the light of the

concurrent findings of fact recorded by the trial court as

well as by the High Court, no interference is called for

in this appeal.

2. For the reasons aforesaid, the appeal is dismissed.