In this case, demands for dowry and dowry-related harassment of bride by husband and in-laws culminated in her murder. She done to death by strangulation in her matrimonial home and thereafter attempt made to camouflage her death as one which arose out of burn injuries. Medical evidence is quite clear that deceased was strangulated first and after her life was extinguished, her body was subjected to post-mortem burn injuries in an attempt to camouflage death as one which arose out of burn injuries. Considering entirety of material on record, it is not possible to take a different view than one that weighed with courts below. Para 14. Thus, conviction and sentences recorded against Accused 1 and 2 (husband and mother-in-law of deceased, respectively, both appellant-accused herein), confirmed.
[Sarepalli Sreenivas v. State of A.P., (2022) 6 SCC 116]