Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 506, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Vague and general allegations - Absence of specific details that constitute cruelty against appellants - Appellants not residing at marital home and appellant No.1 was not even living in India - Proceedings against appellants quashed - If any material comes on record during..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty - One instance unless portentous, in the absence of any material evidence of interference and involvement in marital life of complainant, may not be sufficient to implicate person as having committed cruelty u/s 498-A IPC...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Anticipatory bail - Dowry death - Cruelty - Deceased sustained injuries on account of accident as per dying declaration - Accused himself had sustained 8% burn injuries in trying to extinguish fire sustained by deceased coupled with the fact..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A -- Dowry death - Cruelty - Reduction of sentence - Incident is of the year 2002 - Accused has differently abled son - Life imprisonment awarded to accused reduced to period already undergone by him which is 10 years and nine months approximately - However, accused will pay a fine of Rs.10,000 and in default whereof he will..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 498A, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32 -- Abetment of suicide - Cruelty - Dying declaration - Deceased stated that conduct of mother-in-law prompted her to take extreme step - Sister of deceased was present when mother-in-law quarreled with deceased, but such material witness was withheld by prosecution - Dying declaration itself does..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty - Dying declaration of deceased disclosed that she was unable to withstand the torture meted out, which resulted in her committing suicide would suffice to convict accused for offence punishable u/s 498-A IPC - Accused rightly convicted u/s 498-A IPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 306, 34 -- Offence u/ss 498-A, 306, 34 IPC - Reduction of sentence - Accused are now aged about 66 and 61 years respectively - They have already spent one year, one month and 27 days in prison - Accused do not have any past history of criminal record - Sentence reduced to period already undergone by them with fine of Rs.5,000 each and..........
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...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 34, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Allegations against in-laws - General and omnibus statements against accused persons that they had tortured wife when she stayed in her matrimonial home in absence of her husband - Wife has not sustained any injury at the hands of accused - Prosecution has not..........
