Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 201, 34 -- Murder - Chain of circumstances not complete against A-2 to 6 - As regarding involvement of other accused, except that their names have been brought on record on the basis of confessional statement of accused `S', there is no other material to connect them with the killing of deceased - Confessional statement of co-accused..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376 -- Rape - Consensual relationship cannot give rise to an offence of rape...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376 -- Rape - Consensual relationship - Relationship may be consensual at the beginning but the same state may not remain so for all time to come - Whenever one of partners show their unwillingness to continue with such relationship, character of such relationship as it was when started will not continue to prevail...........
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 - If the allegation of adultery is found to be incorrect, then that allegation, by itself, would amount to cruelty...........
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..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306, 107 -- Abetment of suicide - Instigation - Word uttered in a fit of anger or emotion without intending the consequences to actually follow cannot be said to be instigation...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 306 -- Abetment of suicide - Death by poisoning - In a case of death due to consumption or administering of poison or insecticide or pesticide, be it homicidal or suicidal, recovery of the trace of such poison or insecticide or pesticide is crucial...........
