Dattatray Dada Bhosale v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court, Criminal Appeal No.114 of 2025, decided 25 November 2025 by R.M. Joshi, J.: appeal against acquittal dismissed. Alleged harassment of the deceased Kaushalya by husband and mother-in-law for a demand of Rs.2 lakhs (house at Pune); suicide chit/note silent on the demand; demand supported only by uncorroborated testimony of informant-father Dattatray; deceased at parental home about eight months before the suicide; test for interference with acquittal (material evidence ignored / perverse findings causing miscarriage of justice) applied; acquittal in Sessions Case No.611 of 2013 upheld. No statute or precedent cited in the judgment.
What did the court decide?
Insofar as the demand of Rs.2 lakhs is concerned, except for the uncorroborated oral statement of the Informant Dattatray there is no other evidence to support it.