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Guidelines for Trial of Dowry death cases Punishable Under section 304 B of IPC: Supreme Court Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL Nos. 1735-1736 OF 2010 SATBIR SINGH & ANOTHER  Vs  STATE OF HARYANA  Author: N. V. RAMANA, CJI. Dated:MAY 28, 2021 36. At the cost of repetition, the law under Section 304B, IPC read with Section 113B, Evidence Act can be summarized below: i. Section 304B, IPC must be interpreted keeping in mind the legislative intent to curb the social evil of bride burning and dowry demand. ii. The prosecution must at first establish the existence of the necessary ingredients for constituting an offence under Section 304B, IPC. Once these ingredients are satisfied, the rebuttable presumption of causality, provided under Section 113B, Evidence Act operates against the accused.  iii. The phrase “soon before” as appearing in Section 304B, IPC cannot be construed to mean ‘immediately before’. The prosecution must establ

 What is FIR and Chargesheet? What is First Information Report? F.I.R. means any information recorded by an on-duty officer given by an aggrieved person or any other person either in writing or made orally about the commission of a Cognizable Offence. Based on information so provided the investigation started. F.I.R can also be registered by the Judicial Magistrate by giving the direction to the concerned jurisdictional area of the Police Station. Section 154: Information in cognizable cases Every information relating to the commission of a cognizable offence, if given orally to an officer in charge of a police station, shall be reduced to writing by him or under his direction, and be read Over to the informant; and every such information, whether given in writing or reduced to writing as aforesaid shall be signed by the person giving it, and the substance thereof shall be entered in a book to be kept by such officer in such form as the State Government may prescribe in this behalf. A