Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Conviction - Accused sentenced to six months imprisonment - Accused and victim both remarried and living happily with their families - Sentence reduced to period already undergone which is a little over two months...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- FIR u/s 498-A IPC - Wife also claiming maintenance u/s 125 Cr.P.C. - Parties compromising - Decree for divorce by mutual consent passed - Wife received Rs.1.33 lakhs and undertook to withdraw criminal proceedings - Wife not withdrawing criminal proceedings - Proceedings quashed -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A -- Cruelty - Dowry death - Bride burning - Dying declaration - Death of deceased within 3 years of marriage by burns - Dying declaration of deceased reliable and recorded in a fit state of mind - Non mention of fit state of mind of declarant insignificant when doctor stated that he was satisfied as to fit state of deceased -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 498A -- Suicide - Wife committed suicide by poisoning - Appellant had asked deceased to come to land for doing agricultural work - On refusal by deceased accused taunted her that she had not brought any riches from her parents house - He also assaulted the deceased - Deceased committed suicide in absence of appellant - Where immediate..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 120B, 406, 420, 467, 498A -- Territorial jurisdiction - Alleged acts of cruelty, criminal breach of trust committed at Delhi - None of the acts alleged to have been committed at Ajmer - Court at Ajmer has no territorial jurisdiction to try the case...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 406, 498A -- Offence u/ss 406, 498-A IPC - Territorial jurisdiction - From perusal of statement of complainant recorded u/s 161 Cr.P.C. no part of cause of action arose in District Sri Ganganagar - Held, Court at Sri Ganganagar has no jurisdiction to try the case...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 406, 498A -- Charges framed u/ss 498-A and 406 IPC - Unsustainability - Petitioners not living with complainant since 1994 and no occasion for petitioners to visit complainant's residence - Complainant and her husband living separately - Petitioners, parents-in-law and devar had no occasion to harass complainant or to subject her to any..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Husband taunting wife that she is not good looking - Amounts to cruelty u/s 498-A IPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 498A -- Suicide within 10 months of marriage - Deceased not good looking - Father-in-law would be the last person either to taunt or harass his daughter-in-law on the ground that she is not good looking - Father-in-law acquitted...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 323, 504, 506, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Quashing of FIR registered u/ss 498-A, 323, 504, 506 IPC and Ss.3, 4 Dowry Prohibition Act - Serious allegations of ill treatment, harassment, torture and demand of dowry - Victim beaten by..........
