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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JAIPUR
PANKAJ BHANDARI, J.
Brijendra Singh S/o Late Shri Chotelal – Petitioner
Versus
State of Rajasthan – Respondent
S.B. Criminal Revision Nos. 1012, 1067 of 2018
Decided On : 25-01-2019

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners: Mr. Rajendra Kumar Soni, Mr. S.R. Surana, Mr. Anoop Pareek.
For the Respondent: Mr. Sudesh Saini.

Headnote:

Indian Penal Code, 1860 – Section 498, 306, 304, 406, 201, 120, 302 and 201 – Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 – Section 193 – Evidence Act – Section 106 – Allegation – F.I.R – Impropriety or Illegality – Deceased Committed Suicide – Petitioner-complainant has preferred this revision petition aggrieved by order passed by Additional District Judge Woman Atrocities – Court below has rejected the prayer of complainant for sending the matter for re-investigation and has refused to take cognizance against respondents Petitioner has also challenged order vide which charges have been framed and in alternative under Section 304- Prayer in this regard is that charges should have been framed under Section – Aggrieved by same order petitioner has preferred revision petition for quashing and setting-aside order – Revision petitions pertain to common order both are decided by this common order – Held, Deceased fractured her case of suicidal hanging there can be fracture of C-2, C-3 if the fall is from a height, the distance between the fan and neck of deceased was not even and if Chunni is included there remains no space to commit suicide by hanging. C-2 and C-3 could also be fractured if a person resists when he is being throttled – Twist mark on the neck of less than 1 cm points to throttling with a wire and is not a case of suicide by Chunni. Report submitted by the Mobile FSL Unit is more reliable and presumption under Section 106 of Evidence Act ought to have been drawn against the accused – Connivance of family members of accused-husband is writ large as offence could not have been committed without active participation of his family members evidence also to effect that family members were present and were busy in their day to day routine – Revision Petition filed by complainant deserves to be allowed and Revision Petition filed by accused-husband deserves to be dismissed – Complainant is allowed.

JUDGMENT :

PANKAJ BHANDARI, J.

1. Petitioner-complainant has preferred this revision petition aggrieved by order dated 16.05.2018 passed by Additional District Judge Woman Atrocities Cases No. 2, Jaipur Metropolitan, Jaipur, whereby the Court below has rejected the prayer of complainant for sending the matter for re-investigation and has refused to take cognizance against respondents No. 3 to 7. Petitioner has also challenged the order vide which charges have been framed under Section 498-A & 306 of I.P.C. and in alternative under Section 304-B of I.P.C. Prayer in this regard is that charges should have been framed under Section 304-B, 498-A, 406, 201 and 120-B of I.P.C. Aggrieved by the same order petitioner Mukesh Budhania has preferred revision petition for quashing and setting-aside the order dated 16.05.2018. As both the revision petitions pertain to common order, both are decided by this common order.

2. In brief the factual matrix of the case are that an FIR No. 193/2017 was registered at Police Station Mahesh Nagar, Jaipur (South) with the allegation that complainant’s daughter has been killed by her in-laws namely; Mukesh Budaniya, Ramnath, Satyanarayan and other family members for not being able to meet their demand for dowry. Petitioner-Complainant apprehending collusion of the Investigating Officer with the accused-persons filed a Criminal Misc. Petition and High Court directed the Investigating Officer to make fair investigation. The Investigating Officer filed charge-sheet only against Mukesh Budaniya. The complainant thereafter, moved an application under Section 193 Cr.P.C. for taking cognizance against other accused-persons i.e. respondents No. 3 to 7. The said application was dismissed by the Court below.

3. It is contended by the counsel for the petitioner that the marriage of petitioner’s daughter with Mukesh Budaniya took place on 05.02.2014. She was continuously harassed on the ground of dowry. On 30.04.2017 Ramnath, father-in-law of the deceased rang up the petitioner and demanded dowry or to face the consequences. Complainant met Ramnath and Satyanarayan and assured them that he would try to arrange for the amount of Rs. 2 lacs which was demanded by Ramnath. On the same day at 8.50 pm, Mukesh informed the petitioner-complainant that his daughter Shaifali has died. Petitioner immediately rushed to her daughter’s house, he found that her in-laws were busy in their routine work. They were shocked to find Shaifali lying died on her bed. The FSL Mobile team which came to the spot took finger prints of the deceased and lifted finger prints the ceiling fan. After considering the width of the ligature marks on the body of the deceased, the Mobile FSL team opined that the same was not caused by Chunni. It is contended that the Court below has in summary manner dismissed the application under Section 193 Cr.P.C. without assigning any reason and has erred in framing charges in the alternative under Section 304-B IPC against Mukesh Budhaniya.

4. It is contended by counsel for the petitioners-complainant that the investigation was not fair. Deceased was murdered and to cover up the offence, it was shown as suicide. It is argued that the deceased was lying on the bed, the ligature mark was less than 1 c.m. the dust on the fan was intact hence, it was not established that the deceased committed suicide. Further, there was no stretching of the Chunni and there was twisting in the ligature mark found on the neck of the deceased.

5. It is also contended that the page of diary which was handed over to the Police was not established to be written just prior to the death of the deceased. The diary was of the year 2011 and the note was undated. Pages of diary were missing and the other diaries which were seized were not proved to be in the handwriting of the deceased. Hence, the same cannot be considered as a suicide note.

6. It is also contended that there was specific evidence to the effect that there was demand of dowry soon bef

























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