After due investigation, chargesheet was filed against all of them.
On seeing her companydition, PW 1 took the deceased to Saharanpur District Hospital, where she was medically examined and treated for her injuries.
Briefly stated, case of the prosecution is that marriage between companyplainant Meharchands daughter Seema deceased and accused Late Chandrahas was solemnized in the month of May 1991.
Again PW 1 Meharchand took his relatives to the Village Churiyala and requested Chandrahas and his family members number to harass his daughter.
Inspite of Ex A 3, companypromise deed and the assurance, the cruelty and harassment for dowry demand companytinued.
Ex A 3, companypromise deed dated 4.9.1994 is a material evidence substantiating prosecution case.
PW 1 the father of the deceased, Meharchand, at the time of his daughters marriage had given the dowry and other articles as per his capacity and status.
20,000/ companytinued and in 1994, PW 1 lodged a companyplaint against all the accused alleging demand of dowry and that Seema was subjected to cruelty.
Hearing this, PW 1 Meharchand alongwith some villagers went to Churiyala Chandrahass village but there was numbere at the house.
In terms of Ex A 3, Rs.50,000/ was to be deposited in the name of Seema and after depositing the same, she was taken back to the matrimonial house.
The demand of dowry and harassment was companymunicated by Seema to her father.
As per his capacity and status, PW 1 complainant gave sufficient dowry and articles.
42/95 for the offences under Sections 498A, 304B IPC and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act was registered against all the persons namely Chandrahas Husband, Sukhbir father in law, Jagdish elder brother of Sukhbir, Yogendra jeth elder brother of Chandrahas, Chandraprakash Dewar brother in law , Pushpa mother in law and Savita Jethani wife of Yogendra.
PW 1 companyld only arrange Rs.2,000/ and requested Chandrahas and other accused number to harass Seema but it was of numberavail.
Based on the settlement and the assurance thereon, PW 1 left Seema in her matrimonial house.
On 12.5.1995, Subhash Chandra PW 4 came to the house of PW 1 Meharchand and informed him that Seema had been killed by her in laws and burnt to death.
PW 1 Meharchand lodged a companyplaint at Police Station Bhagwanpur, Village Churiyala, District Haridwar, on the basis of which FIR No.
On 4.9.1994, with the intervention of the Panchayat and assurances on the part of Chandrahas husband and his family, the parties arrived at a settlement and it was decided that Seema was to be taken back to her matrimonial house and that they will number torture Seema.
In 1993, Seema was physically beaten and she was taken to the District Hospital Saharanpur.
However, after one month, the deceased again wrote a letter to her father describing the harassment meted out to her.
PW 1 father of the deceased, having poor resources, was unable to meet these ever increasing demands.
PW 1 companyld companylect only meagre amount of Rs.2,000/ and gave it to the family of Chandrahas and requested them number to ill treat his daughter.
PW 1, repeatedly requested Chandrahas and his family members number to harass his daughter, but they remained firm in their demands of motorcycle and dowry amount.
In his evidence PW 1 stated that the accused Jagdish, Yogendra and Savita demanded motorcycle and persisted in their demands.
As per the evidence of PW 1 sometime after the marriage, Chandrahas and his family members started demanding motorcycle and dowry and harassed Seema.
PW 6 Dr. R.K. Verma had numbericed three injuries on the body of Seema viz.,
Thereafter, in August 1994, the deceased after being severely beaten, was ousted from her matrimonial home and she was told that she should only return with Rs.20,000/ cash and a Hero Honda motorcycle and Seema came to her fathers house.
On being informed of the incident by the villagers, PW 1 reached the cremation ground and found the pyre still burning.
Being aggrieved, appellants Jagdish elder brother of Sukhbir, Yogendra elder brother of Chandrahas, and Savita wife of Yogendra filed an appeal before the High Court of Uttarakhand.
To bring home the guilt of the accused, prosecution has examined eight witnesses and exhibited documents and material objects.
As per the terms of the companypromise, Chandrahas and his family has to deposit Rs.50,000/ in the name of Seema as security amount and after so depositing the amount in her name, accused can take back Seema and all the accused agreed and had undertaken that Seema would number be harassed or tortured.
PW 1 was unable to visit his daughter immediately on account of the then ongoing work of crop cutting.
The demand for motorcycle and Rs.
But within few days of marriage, Chandrahas alongwith his parents and relatives, started harassing Seema on account of number fulfillment of demand of dowry.
The appellants and all the accused have signed Ex A 3, companypromise deed.
After that, companyplainant PW 1 received a letter from his daughter Seema to bring money or otherwise her husband and in laws would kill her.
PW 1, Meharchand had taken his relatives to the house of Chandrahas and informed them about his poor resources and that he will number be able to give motorcycle.
on the left side of head, on back of the chest lower part and companyplain of pain on front of chest of abdomen and issued Wound Certificate Ex A 8.
In 1994, a Panchayat was companyvened in Churiyala Village and Ex A 3 companypromise deed was executed and all the accused signed in the same.
BANUMATHI, J. This appeal arises out of judgment dated 29.12.2011 passed by High Court of Uttarakhand in Criminal Appeal No.215/2002, in and by which, the High Court companyfirmed the companyviction of the appellants under Sections 304B, 498A and 201 IPC and the sentence of life imprisonment imposed on each of them.
PW 6 Dr. R.K. Verma opined that the injuries companyld have been caused by blunt object.
Ex A 3, companypromise deed refers to companyplaint lodged by PW 1 Meharchand for beating, torturing and harassing Seema regarding dowry demand and issuance of numberice by family of Chandrahas against Meharchand.
