Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 302 -- Dowry death by burn injuries - Kerosene oil poured and deceased set on fire - Prosecution of husband and mother-in-law - Deceased subjected to torture and maltreatment for bringing more dowry - Sufficient evidence available to prove torture and assault against both accused - No evidence to show that deceased committed suicide -..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A, 34 -- Offence u/s 304-B, 498-A/34 IPC - Mother-in-law seeking anticipatory bail - Deceased committed suicide when she was at parents house for about one month - Allegations in FIR were against husband who is already in custody - Prima facie there is no proximate or live link between..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438(2), Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 406, 498A -- Suicide at her parents house - Complaint against accused that they were not satisfied with dowry and they were harassing the deceased, consequent to which she developed depression - Case of accused that deceased was a schizophrenic psychotic patient with cyclic depression and..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 304B -- Conviction set aside by High Court - State appeal - No evidence to connect accused with offence under section 498-A - No evidence to suggest that soon before occurrence deceased was subjected to torture and harassment - Medical evidence also ambiguous - No interference in order of acquittal...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Reduction in sentence - Conviction u/s 498-A IPC - Sentence reduced from 3 years to already undergone i.e. 5 months...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 406 -- Dowry article - Misappropriation and harassment - FIR lodged against husband, his father, mother and unmarried sister u/s 406, 498-A IPC - FIR against sister quashed - It is unbelievable that unmarried sister was entrusted with dowry articles separately and that she harassed bride in..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Ill treatment and demand of money - Inconsistency as to the exact amount demanded by accused - Held, quantum of demand differed from time to time as such evidence of witnesses cannot be rejected merely on the ground that there is no consistency as to the exact amount demanded by accused...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Ill treatment - Neighbour not examined - Held, it is not expected of newly married to go about in the neighbourhood complaining against her husband - This is not a good enough reason to reject the testimony of a large number of witnesses...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Ill treatment - No reference to ill treatment in one of the letters - Merely because in one solitary letter there is no reference to ill treatment is not a ground to arrive at the conclusion that deceased was never ill treated...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Divorced wife - Acts of cruelty committed by husband when marriage was in subsistence - Husband is liable u/s 498-A IPC - Expression 'being the husband' relates to marital status of accused at the time of commission of offence and not such status at the time of filing of complaint...........
