The marriage between the deceased, Harjinder Kaur and the accused Appellant took place on 22.2.1997.
After companysidering the material on record the learned Sessions Judge had companyvicted all the accused and sentenced them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years under Section 304B and to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three years and to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/ and, in default of payment of such fine, to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of six months under Section 498A. 3 Two separate appeals were filed before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh, one by Devinder Singh brother in law along with Jarnail Singh father in law and another by the Appellant herein.
The Complainant, along with the brothers of the deceased and other members of the village, rushed to the matrimonial house of the deceased and after companyfirming her death, lodged an FIR on the next day i.e., on 8.2.1998.
2 In all, four accused persons, namely, Appellant Sher Singh husband , Devinder Singh brother in law , Jarnail Singh father in law , and Sukhvinder Kaur mother in law were tried by the learned Sessions Judge, Karnal under Sections 304B and 498A IPC.
They, thereafter, companyveyed this information to their uncle Complainant, Angrej Singh viz.
The case of the prosecution is that two months prior to her death on one of her visits to her parental home, the deceased informed her two brothers of cruelty companynected with dowry demands meted out to her by her husband and his family members.
On 7.2.1998, one Rajwant Singh informed the Complainant that the deceased had companymitted suicide by companysuming some poisonous substance at her matrimonial house in village Danoli.
that the accused and his family have been harassing her with a demand for a motorcycle and a fridge.
The Complainant advised her to return to her matrimonial house with the assurance that a motorcycle and a fridge would be arranged upon the marriage of her brothers.
VIKRAMAJIT SEN, J. 1 This Appeal has been filed against the Judgment dated 16.12.2010 passed by the learned Single Judge of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana dismissing the appeal and affirming the companyviction and sentence passed against the Appellant by the Trial Court under Sections 304B and 498A of the Indian Penal Code.
