REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1592 OF 2011

SHER SINGH @ PARTAPA …..APPELLANT

Versus

STATE OF HARYANA …..RESPONDENT

J U D G M E N T

VIKRAMAJIT SEN, J.

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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 conviction and sentence passed

against the Appellant by the Trial Court under Sections 304B and 498A of

the Indian Penal Code. The marriage between the deceased, Harjinder Kaur

and the accused-Appellant took place on 22.2.1997. 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 connected

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Digitally signed by

Usha Rani Bhardwaj

Date: 2015.01.09

17:24:10 IST

Reason:

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with dowry demands meted out to her by her husband and his family

members. They, thereafter, conveyed this information to their

uncle-Complainant, Angrej Singh viz. that the accused and his family h