{"id":177257,"date":"2021-06-18T19:54:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=177257"},"modified":"2021-06-19T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T06:36:21","slug":"supreme-court-releases-man-convicted-for-dowry-death-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/supreme-court-news\/supreme-court-releases-man-convicted-for-dowry-death-on-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court releases dowry death case convict on bail after he completes 5 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Supreme Court<\/a><\/strong> on Friday has granted bail to a man convicted and sentenced to undergo 7 years imprisonment for the dowry death of his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bench of Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice V. Ramasubranian granted bail to Sopan, convicted for the offence of demand of dowry and dowry death of his wife. Sachin Pahwa, advocate for the petitioner Sopan, apprised the Bench that he has already undergone 5 years of his sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Apex Court noted that the appellant stands convicted for offences punishable under Sections 498A and 304B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for 7 years. The appellant has already undergone more than five years of the sentence. In view of the period of custody undergone by the appellant, the sentence imposed upon the appellant is suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Court said, \u201cHe be released on bail to the satisfaction of the trial court.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Supreme Court Bench of Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit had issued notice on 5.07.2018 to State of Karnataka. Sopan challenged before High Court of Karnataka at Kalibaug way of Criminal Appeal u\/s 374 of CRPC against the judgment of conviction and order on sentence dated 7.02.2009 by trial court for the offences under section 498A and 304B of IPC, and Sections 3, 4 and 6 of Dowry Prohibition Act,1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Hon\u2019ble High court affirmed the judgment of the trial court and also directed in terms of sub section 3a of section 6 of Dowry Prohibition Act,1961 to transfer dowry items back to legal heirs of deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n