Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty - Not providing food to the married woman on account of non fulfillment of demand of dowry would certainly amount to physical and mental harassment...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 506, 34, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Quashing of FIR - Allegations made in FIR are specific against each and every accused and by no stretch of imagination it can be termed as a vague, omnibus or general in nature - Merely because FIR has been lodged after filing of divorce petition, same..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 420, 506, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Parties entered into compromise before Lok Adalat - However, wife withdrew her consent from compromise - Proceedings were re-initiated on vexatious grounds - Allegations against accused are wholly general and omnibus in nature and even if they are taken in..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 506, 34 -- Cruelty - Allegation against accused that they harassed and ill treated wife for not fulfilling dowry demand - Evidence on record proved that at the time of marriage accused demanded and received sum of Rs.1,10,000 in cash and also several household articles - Testimony of wife is corroborated by testimony of PWs 1 to 4 -..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - False allegations of dowry demand and extra marital relationship with one woman was made by wife against husband, which amounts to mental cruelty upon husband - Divorce rightly granted to husband...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 323, 506, 504, 406, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Allegation against sisters-in-law (Nanads) of wife - Omnibus and general allegations leveled against accused - Accused/sisters-in-law were already married prior to marriage of wife/complainant and her husband - They were living at far away place..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Dowry death - Dying declaration of deceased is reliable, however, it would not suggest that there was any proximate nexus to the act of committing suicide on account of preceding demand for dowry on any particular date having triggered the deceased to commit suicide or forced her to self..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B -- Dowry death - Except vague allegation there is nothing in the evidence of relative witnesses to support prosecution case - No evidence on record to prove beyond reasonable doubt that deceased was harassed on account of non-fulfillment of demand of dowry - Accused acquitted...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty - General allegations of demand of dowry - No specific date mentioned as to on which date demand was made - Present case was filed after complainant was released on bail in a case for attempting to commit murder of her father-in-law - Offence u/s 498-A IPC not made out against accused - Accused acquitted...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty - Non-providing of proper medical aid to ones wife to enforce demand of dowry will come within definition of cruelty as enunciated u/s 498-A IPC...........
