Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Mental cruelty - Petition by husband - Act of wife lodging serious complaints against husband and his family under PWDV Act on false grounds which was designed to cause him harm, amounts to mental cruelty - Divorce rightly grated to husband...........
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 20(b)(ii)(B) -- Recovery of 1 kg Ganja - Independent witnesses not supported prosecution case and turned hostile, but they admitted their signatures on relevant documents - Official witnesses however, have unequivocally stated about search and seizure of contraband from possession of accused - Defence has..........
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 4, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 451 -- Sexual assault - Accused committed sexual intercourse on victim with false promise to marry her and thereafter since accused refused to marry her and failed to keep up his promise, she consumed poison - Mother of victim was examined and she corroborated said fact -..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 344, 482 -- Giving false evidence - Show cause notice - Notice issued to accused for purpose of giving them an opportunity of showing cause - Court was not required to give elaborate reasons for its satisfaction for proceeding summarily to try witnesses for giving false evidence - At this stage Court of Sessions or Magistrate is only..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 439, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307, 506, 34, Arms Act, 1959, Section 25, 54, 59 -- Bail - Murder - Plea of false implication and import of evidence of ballistic expert has to be debated during the course of trial - Petitioner a young man of 24 years is in custody from last 5 years with delay in his trial not attributed to..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 363, 366A, 376, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 5, 6 -- Kidnapping and rape - Prosecutrix herself admitted that she is about 20 years of age and got married with another person - No evidence on record to prove that prosecutrix was taken away from custody of her parents - Prosecution failed to prove that..........
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Section 6 -- Aggravated penetrative sexual assault - False implication - Case rests mainly on testimony of complainant/victim's mother - Accused contended that he had asked to collect rent by DW2 from complainant and there was quarrel between them and due to this complainant falsely implicated him - Contention..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Rape - False promise of marriage - Quashing of FIR - Love affair between parties which continued unabatedly for almost 12 years - Accused and prosecutrix involved in a purely consensual relationship with each other for nearly a decade - Allegation against accused that prosecutrix was..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 406, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Cruelty - Entrustment of stridhan - Quashing of order framing charges - Allegation against accused/brother-in-law of complainant - Highest allegation of complainant regarding entrustment of her stridhan article was against her mother-in-law, who has passed away - Nothing on record..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2)(n), 90 -- Rape - Consent - False promise of marriage - Prosecutrix and accused were in relationship with each other and has sexual intercourse many a times - She was a major around 25 years of age and she was intelligent enough to understand the significance and moral quality of the act she was consenting to - Prosecutrix even became..........
