Evidence Act, 1872, Section 113B, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A -- Offence u/ss 304-B, 498-A IPC - Presumption - Only when it is shown that soon before her death a woman was subjected by any person to cruelty or harassment for, or in connection with, any demand for dowry, the Court shall presume that such person had caused the dowry death within the meaning..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 406, 498A -..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 389, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 304B -- and 120-B - Cruelty - Dowry death - Conviction - Appeal - Suspension of sentence - Appellant No.2 has undergone more than 2 years of imprisonment out of sentence of ten years rigorous imprisonment - Sentence of mother-i, law of deceased has already been suspended by this court -..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 320, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 326, 498A -- Conviction u/s 326 IPC - Parties compromised - Accused cannot be acquitted as offence u/s 326 IPC is non compoundable...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty - Husband objecting his wife's attending conference at another place as the single lady member - Held, it cannot be deemed as cruelty u/s 498-A IPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty - Husband once slapped deceased wife while taking breakfast - Held, single act on the part of husband, appears to be an act done in a fit of anger as a result of emotional outburst - It cannot amount to cruelty u/s 498-A IPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 306 -- Cruelty and abetment to suicide - Deceased informed his father that she was tortured by husband - Father failed to narrate the nature of torture meted to his daughter - In dying declaration, deceased stated that she had decided to end her life as her husband refused to allow her from going to another place to attend conference..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 306 -- Reduction in sentence - Husband and mother-in-law convicted and sentenced on the allegation of cruelty and abetment of suicide - Incident of the year 1994 - Husband got remarried and had got two children - Mother-in-law 70 years of age - Substantive sentence reduced to one already undergone...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 498A -- Conviction u/ss 498-A, 306 IPC and accused sentenced to 1 year and 7 months RI respectively - Incident 10 years old - Accused undergone more than two years of actual sentence - Sentence reduced to already undergone...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304B, 498A, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Dowry death within seven years of marriage - Unnatural death - No evidence that there was ever demand of dowry or that deceased was subjected to cruelty for demand of dowry - Held, this is not a case of dowry death - Conviction u/ss 304-B, 498-A IPC and Ss.3, 4 Dowry Prohibition..........
