Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty - Compelling a married woman to live in her parental home on account of non fulfillment of demand of dowry would certainly amount to mental harassment, punishable u/s 498-A IPC...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A -- Cruelty - Not providing food to the married woman on account of non fulfillment of demand of dowry would certainly amount to physical and mental harassment...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 506, 34, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Quashing of FIR - Merely because FIR has been lodged after filing of divorce petition, same cannot be quashed on the ground that it is by way of counter blast...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 506, 34, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Quashing of FIR - Allegations made in FIR are specific against each and every accused and by no stretch of imagination it can be termed as a vague, omnibus or general in nature - Merely because FIR has been lodged after filing of divorce petition, same..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 406, 498A -- Anticipatory bail - Offence u/ss 406, 498-A IPC - Non-recovery of dowry articles/Istridhan, cannot ordinarily be a ground, by itself, for declining a plea for grant of anticipatory bail to the husband or his relatives...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 406, 498A -- Anticipatory bail - Offence u/ss 406, 498-A IPC - Accused has joined investigation and is not required for custodial interrogation - It is neither the stand of State counsel nor that of complainant that accused has misused concession of interim bail by threatening/intimidating the..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 506, 34 -- Cruelty - Allegation against accused that they harassed and ill treated wife for not fulfilling dowry demand - Evidence on record proved that at the time of marriage accused demanded and received sum of Rs.1,10,000 in cash and also several household articles - Testimony of wife is corroborated by testimony of PWs 1 to 4 -..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - Petition by husband - False allegations of dowry demand and extra marital relationship with one woman was made by wife against husband, which amounts to mental cruelty upon husband - Divorce rightly granted to husband...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 498A, 323, 506, 504, 406, Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, Section 3, 4 -- Cruelty - Dowry demand - Allegation against sisters-in-law (Nanads) of wife - Omnibus and general allegations leveled against accused - Accused/sisters-in-law were already married prior to marriage of wife/complainant and her husband - They were living at far away place..........
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..........
