Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 494, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 198, 482 -- Second marriage by wife - Complaint can be filed by husband only - Cognizance taken on complaint filed by mother-in-law, quashed being without any jurisdiction...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498, 494 -- Second marriage during subsistence of first marriage - Second wife committed suicide due to harassment by accused on account of demand of dowry - Accused cannot be allowed to take a plea that second wife could not be termed as wife as marriage was null and void - Held, although second marriage was null and void but until..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 169, 173, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 494 -- FIR u/s 494 IPC - Accused found innocent by police in investigation and submitted cancellation report - Report of police submitted u/ss 169 or 173 Cr.P.C. is not the final word - Magistrate can proceed on his own by recording preliminary evidence and then issue the process against the..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 256, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 494 -- Complaint u/s 494 IPC dismissed for default - Second complaint is maintainable...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 494 -- Complaint u/s 494 - Dismissed for default - Second complaint - Maintainable - However, it will be unfair to summon accused to face trial in view of passage of time...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 494, Ranbir Penal Code, 1989, Section 109 -- Second marriage after passing of decree of divorce - Decree of divorce set aside - No offence of bigamy is committed as on the date second marriage was performed there was no subsisting first marriage...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 494, 494A, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4, 6, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 156(3) -- Private complaint for offence under Ss.494, 494-A IPC and Ss.3,4 & 6 Dowry Prohibition Act - Magistrate referred complaint for investigation to police - Order set aside as cognizance of offence under S.494 IPC by Court can only be on a..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 494 -- Bigamy - Second marriage - No averment in complaint that customary rites and ceremonies prevalent in the caste or tribe, if any, to which the complainant and her husband were belonging were performed or that Saptapadi was not a necessary ceremony of the marriage - Complainant making out case that there was chanting of Salokas and..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 494 -- Bigamy - Trial - Procedure for trial is that of a warrant case...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 494, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 198 -- Offence u/s 494 IPC - Magistrate can take cognizance only when aggrieved person files a complaint - Magistrate cannot take cognizance of offence on a police report...........