Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Second marriage of both the parties - Plea of wife that husband caused cruelty due to non fulfillment of dowry demand - Court cannot presume that a second marriage of both the parties would necessarily entail no dowry demand...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498, 323, 504, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Offence u/ss 498, 323, 504 IPC - FIR is nothing but a concocted story of demand of dowry by making general and vague allegations against applicants - Final report was filed on the basis of compromise which indicates that articles, gold items and other goods belonging to dowry were..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304B, 498A, 506, 114, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Dowry death - Cruelty - A-1 was not present at the scene of offence when incident occurred - DWs who are colleagues of A-1 supported him and categorically stated that A-1 was with them at his office on the date of incident - Demand of dowry was made by in-laws and not..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A, 34 -- Dowry death - Cruelty - Statement of PWs - Mother of deceased/PW6 while deposing demand of dowry has not deposed to any particular act of cruelty or harassment by appellant - Essential ingredients of S.304-B IPC not made out from evidence of PW6 - Statements of bother of deceased/PW7 not contain any specific instance of..........
Divorce Act, 1869, Section 10(1)(x) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Allegations made by wife against husband that he demanded dowry from wife's parents, not proved - Further, allegations that wife uttered vulgar words towards husband and his family members are also not proved - Marriage between parties has broken down irretrievably - Husband has made out a..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 4 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Appellant subjected his wife to harassment with a view to coercing her and her mother to meet the unlawful demand for gold sovereigns and continued to harass her when she and her relatives failed to meet such demand - Ingredients of S.498-A IPC and S.4 of D.P Act are..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 4 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Quantum of sentence - Appellant has undergone approximately 3 months in custody - Admittedly, incident pertains to the year 2006 and couple lived together exactly for three days - Wife is married and settled abroad - Case has been prolonged for a period of nearly 19..........
Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Section 12 -- Domestic violence - Applicant no.1 who is the mother-in-law of wife has been residing in shared household, will fall within the definition of respondent as per S.2(q) of the Act - There is allegation that mother-in-law has harassed for demand of dowry and she also extended threat to evict her from shared..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - Wife wants to live with her husband only on the condition that if he keeps her at separate place, as she does not want to live with her in-laws - Husband made all possible efforts to bring back his wife, but she did not agree and levelled false and vague allegations to anyhow break her..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Allegations against husband - Wife has made general accusations against husband without furnishing specific instances of misconduct - Neither any specific allegations nor any material have come on record to show a prima..........
