JUDGEMENT
RAJENDRA M.SAREEN,J. -
(1.)Present appeal has been filed by the appellant - State under Sec. 378(1)(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure,
1973 challenging the judgment and order dtd. 19/9/1994, passed in Sessions Case No. 168 of 1991 by the learned
Additional Sessions Judge, Mahesana, recording the acquittal.
(2.)Brief facts are that complainant - Kamalaben wife of Rasiklal Ambalal (hereinafter shall be referred to as the
complainant) lodged the complaint stating that she is residing
at Ahmedabad with her family and she has four children, out
of which, marriage of her elder daughter - Saroj was
performed on 3/2/1991 as per their rites and rituals with
Girishkumar Kanaiyalal Modi - respondent No.3 herein. After
the marriage, Saroj had gone to her matrimonial house and
stayed there for 25 days and thereafter she came back to her
parental house. After coming to her parental house, deceased
informed the complainant that she will not go to her
matrimonial house, since her mother-in-law Taraben, father-
in-law Kanaiyalal and sister-in-law Manishaben, all three were
taunting her time and again about sufficient dowry not given
by her parents. She further informed the complainant that on
the aspect of dowry, they used to quarrel with the deceased
and torturing her physically and mentally. The deceased has
also informed the complainant that her in-laws are instigating
her husband against her and not permitting her to have
physical relation with her husband and compelled her to sleep
with them. Complainant had informed the aforesaid facts to
her husband. However, complainant and her husband asked the
deceased to go back to her matrimonial home and told her
that they will talk with her in-laws regarding all such issues.
Therefore, deceased went to her matrimonial house on
25/3/1991. However, on 29/3/1991, the complainant received telephonic information through her relative that deceased has
burnt and she is taken to Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad for
treatment. Therefore, the complainant, her husband and other
persons have gone to Civil Hospital and found that deceaced
sustained burns on her entire body and as she was
unconscious, they could not talk with the deceased. At that
night, the sister-in-law of the complainant named Lilaben and
Vidyaben, who are residing in the neighbourhood of deceased
in Mehsana, met the complainant and informed her that
mother-in-law of the deceased told them that they do not want
deceased and they should kill her.
(3.)Hence, the complainant lodged a complaint against the respondents for the offences punishable under Ss. 304(B) ,
306 , 498(A) and 114 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (herein after referred to as 'the IPC ') and Ss. 3 and 4 of the
Dowry Prohibition Act.