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2012 Supreme(Cal) 1045

INDIRA BANERJEE, GIRISH CHANDRA GUPTA
STATE OF WEST BENGAL – Appellant
Versus
BINOD KUMAR SHAW – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant : Siladitya Sanyal.
For the Respondent: Sudipto Moitra, Biplab Mitra, Rajdeep Majumdar, Arindam Jana and Mr. T. Mitra.

JUDGMENT :

Girish Chandra Gupta, J.

This appeal is directed against a judgment dated 28th February 2006 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track 3rd Court, Sealdah, in Sessions Trial No. 2 (12) of 2005 corresponding to Sessions Case No. 5 (11) 2005 (State of West Bengal vs. Binod Kumar Shaw and two others) by which the learned Trial Court acquitted the accused persons of the offences punishable under Sections 304B/498A/406 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 34 thereof. The State has preferred this appeal. The facts and circumstances of the case briefly stated are that within four years of marriage Santra Shaw, aged about 23 years, mother of a male child aged less than two years, died and her dead body was recovered from a pond near her matrimonial home on 27th February 2004. A written complaint was lodged instantaneously at the place of occurrence alleging, inter alia, continuous torture, both physical and mental, by the husband and the parents-in-law, due to failure on the part of the party of the complainant to give them a jeep agreed to be given at the time of marriage. The case of defence is that the victim was a patient of paranoid schizophrenia and wa

















































































































































































































































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