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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
G.Girish, J
Jawaharlal – Appellant
Versus
State – Respondent
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| 1. prosecution case of dowry cruelty and assault on pregnant wife. (Para 2 , 3) |
| 2. proceedings conducted in absence with amicus curiae. (Para 4 , 5) |
| 3. reliance on victim's and corroborative witness evidence. (Para 6) |
| 4. minor contradictions do not vitiate cruelty findings; revision dismissed. (Para 7 , 8) |
O R D E R
The concurrent verdicts of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Ernakulam, and the Additional Sessions Court-IV, Ernakulam, in C.C.No.821/2000 & Crl.A.No.458/2006 respectively, convicting and sentencing the petitioners for the commission of offence under Section 498A read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short, ‘ IPC '), are under challenge in this revision petition.
2. The prosecution case is that the first petitioner, who married PW1 on 09.01.2000, subjected her to cruelty, along with the petitioners 2 & 3, who are his parents, by physically and mentally torturing PW1 demanding more dowry. As part of the above tortures, the petitioners are alleged to have inflicted voluntary hurt upon PW1 at 05:30 p.m., on 26.06.2000, while she was pregnant, and expelled her from the residence of the petitioners.
3. Before the Trial Court, the
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