Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 427, 504, 506, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Cruelty - Settlement - When parties genuinely settle the dispute amicably then Criminal proceedings can be quashed by exercising power under Article 142 of the Constitution of India or even u/s 482 Cr.P.C...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 319, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 498A -- Summoning of additional accused - Abetment of suicide - Cruelty - Accused implicated first time in statement of informant before trial Court - Story set up by witnesses during their testimony before trial Court has come up for the first time which is against the allegations of FIR and..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 406, 354, 354A, 506, 34, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Quashing of FIR - Compromise - Dowry demand - Compromise arrived at between parties and parties amicably resolved their dispute - Offences in question are of predominantly private in nature and no moral turpitude or..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 406, 504, 506, 34 -- Cruelty - No evidence on record that wife was subjected to cruelty - Only allegation is of being threatened on the particular day when absence of husband has been proved by documents - There is no material or evidence to show that there was entrustment and misappropriation as required u/s 406 IPC - Allegations..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 323, 34 -- Quashing of proceedings, post conviction, during pendency of appeal - Compromise - Proceedings emanating from matrimonial dispute - No embargo in exercising power u/s 482 Cr.P.C. to quash proceedings - Criminal proceedings quashed...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 406, 323, 34, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Wife developed primary infertility with premature menopause - Husband in such traumatic situation asked wife for divorce by mutual consent which amounts to mental cruelty which effected life and health of wife - Prima facie case is made out against accused -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 177, 178 -- Cruelty - Territorial jurisdiction of Court - Court where wife takes shelter after leaving or driven away from matrimonial home on account of acts of cruelty, would have jurisdiction to entertain complaint alleging commission of offence u/s 498-A IPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 177, 178 -- Cruelty - Territorial jurisdiction of Court - Sending SMS to different girls for marriage proposal by husband prima facie disclose mental torture upon wife and thereby such mental torture can be well said to have taken place at the parental house where wife is residing - SDJM..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 4 -- Dowry death - Allegations against mother-in-law and father-in-law - General allegations levelled against accused persons - No overt act attributed to accused - Even, no case is made out from dying declaration of deceased against accused persons - Mother-in-law and father-in-law..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 4 -- Two dying declarations - Dowry death - Allegations against husband - Accused is in jail for more than 17 years - No allegations made by wife against husband in her first dying declaration - However, allegations are levelled against husband and his parents..........
