Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 307, 498A, 506, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Attempt to murder - Allegations of demand of dowry, torture and attempt to set victim on fire against family members of husband - Neither any specific date has been mentioned nor there is any injury report on record - Rather it is a case of no injury - Circumstances show that..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 167(2), Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 506, 120B -- Default bail - For grant of default bail, Court has to see the maximum awardable punishment and not the minimum awardable punishment...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 167(2), Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 506, 120B -- Default bail - Offence u/ss 376, 506, 120-B IPC - Maximum sentence that can be awarded u/s 376 IPC is life imprisonment - Challan can be filed within 90 days - However, Magistrate wrongly allowed bail after 60 days, as Court has to see maximum awarded punishment not the..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 167(2), Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 506, 120B -- Default bail - Wrongly allowed - Revisional Court rightly remedied the error by cancelling the bail...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 195A, 506 -- Offence u/ss 195-A, 506 IPC - Quashing of FIR - FIR lodged by reader of Court at the direction of Judge, as accused threatened the witness and hurled filthy abuses - FIR cannot be quashed on the ground that reader of Judge was not competent to lodge FIR as reader acted on basis of direction given by Addl. Chief Judicial..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 323, 504, 506, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Section 3(2)(v) -- Rape of married woman - Accused allegedly committed rape upon prosecutrix on the point of country made pistol - Caste derogatory words also used against prosecutrix and his family in case any action is taken - However, medical..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376, 506 -- Anticipatory bail - Rape - False promise of marriage - Accused had sexual intercourse with prosecutrix by giving false assurance of marriage but subsequently backed out from the same - Act of accused falls squarely under the definition of rape as he had sexual intercourse with..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 323, 406, 506, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 378(4) -- Offence u/ss 498-A, 323, 406, 506 - Neither any demand nor any entrustment of dowry or causing any injury proved - Acquittal upheld...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 307, 323, 148, 149, 506, 324, 326, 201 -- Anticipatory bail - Murder case - Main accused already in custody - No direct role/injuries attributed to present petitioners - Petitioners who all are ladies are stated to be part of conspiracy and carrying danda and brick bats - At the initial stage..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376(2)(g), 506, 34 -- Gang rape - Story presented by prosecutrix seems improbable as she is not even clear as to on which dates she was sexually assaulted - Prosecutrix informed the incident after 10 days of previous incident when she was ravished - No visible external injuries found on the body of prosecutrix including private parts -..........
