Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 4 -- Dowry demand - Mere demand of dowry is punishable u/s 4 of the Act - An element of cruelty is not necessary...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance to wife - Parties living separately for about 26 years as physical and mental cruelty meted out to wife - Husband also not paid any maintenance to wife u/s 125 Cr.P.C. till date - Family Court rightly awarded maintenance of Rs.1,500 p.m to wife after presuming the income of husband @ Rs.5000 to 6000 pm...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 125 -- Maintenance - Decree of divorce on ground by cruelty and desertion by wife - Wife not entitled to maintenance...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - Deceased committed suicide by hanging after 2 years and 1 month of her marriage - No whisper of any demand of dowry by i, laws or husband or treating her with cruelty in connection with no, fulfillment of alleged demand of dowry - There was some dispute between deceased and her mother-i, law, as deceased was not..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 177, 178, 179, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Jurisdiction - Cruelty - Due to mental cruelty wife living in a different city - Not a continuing offence - Court at the place where wife is living has jurisdiction only when there is specific case of physical or mental torture at the place where she is living...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia), 13(1)(ib) -- Divorce - Cruelty and desertion - Petition by husband - Divorce petition filed after 18 years of marriage - Wife forced to leave matrimonial home due to behavior of husband - No efforts made by husband to bring her back - It was the husband who deserted wife - Husband miserably failed to prove that wife caused any..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Filing of false divorce petition and then unilaterally withdrawing it, adds to cruelty upon other spouse...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty upon wife - Making allegation to mother that she killed her child, whose child had expired within 24 hours of delivery, amounts to cruelty upon her, when admittedly wife was still bed ridden and child being born through a caesarean operation...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304B, 498A -- Dowry death - Cruelty - To constitute an offence u/s 304-B IPC, presumption u/s 113-B of Evidence Act, cannot be raised against an accused until independently offence u/s 498-A IPC is proved by leading evidence to specific allegation with regard to time and date of such demand and cruelty and furthermore establishing proximity..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty - Death by burning - Parents and cousin of deceased duly established beyond reasonable doubt that deceased was harassed and meted with cruelty by accused on account of demand of dowry - Sufficient evidence on record to establish that deceased was subjected to cruelty on account of dowry - Accused thus, guilty of offence u/s..........
