1. Feeling aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the
judgment and order of acquittal dated 22.02.2010, passed by
the learned Sessions Judge, Bhuj, in Sessions Case No.14 of
2008, for the offences punishable under Sections 498(A) and
306 of the Indian Penal Code, the appellant – State of
Gujarat has preferred this appeal under Section 378 of the
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, “the Code”).
2. The prosecution case as unfolded during the trial
before the Sessions Court is that the complainant, who is the
brother of the deceased – Rekhaben, had filed the complaint
stating that his sister – Rekhaben got married with the
accused before fourteen years of the incident and out of the
said wedlock, she delivered two boys viz. Aman and Yash;
that after the marriage, she started residing with her
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husband in a joint family; that after the marriage, she
complained of ill-treatment, harassment and torture by the
respondent-accused on account of insufficient dowry; that
whenever the deceased used to visit the house of the
complainant, the accused was giving mental and physical
torture to her. Thus, on account of the constant harassment
at the hands of the accused, the deceased committed suicide
by hanging herself on 24.04.2007 and therefore, the complaint
was filed against the respondent/s-accused.