dowry harassment
Women father jailed as city court says giving dowry is also an offence
New Delhi: In a rare judgment, probably the first for the Karkardooma courts, a sessions judge has ordered the prosecution of a man, who allegedly gave dowry to his daughter’s in-laws at the time of her marriage over two years ago.
In fact, it was his daughter’s complaints and multifarious criminal cases against her estranged husband [...]
Techie commits suicide in jail
Shubankar Katyayan Khan, 33, a native of Jamshedpur, was working with a software giant in the city. In June 2007, he married Nandini from Baroda. The marriage was registered in the city on December 1, 2007.
Following a strained relationship, the two applied for divorce. Nandini filed a complaint alleging dowry harassment. Following a court [...]
Orissa IPS officer booked for torturing wife for Dowry
Bhubaneswar, Aug 7 A criminal case has been registered against a state cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer for allegedly torturing his wife for dowry in Nayagarh district of Orissa, police said Friday.
Meenal Agarwal, 24, in her complaint at a police station in Nayagarh, 87 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, alleged that her husband Jai [...]
Man fights dowry case by woman he claims he never married
Thane resident presses for discharge from case; provides evidence his alleged “wife” married another man recently while claiming to be a spinster
A marriage has been likened to a battlefield by pessimists, but few can detail the trauma it can bring when the “marriage” itself had, apparently, not even taken place.For the last two years, Thane [...]
Woman jumps to death from Ghaziabad mall
Ghaziabad, June 24 A 23-year-old married woman jumped to death from the third floor of a mall on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border Wednesday afternoon, police said, suspecting it to be a “case of dowry-harassment” by her in-laws driving her to commit suicide.
Saraswati had gone to the East Delhi Mall (EDM) in Kaushambi Towers with her husband [...]
Alimony – Primary motivation for divorces in India
Recently I had the pleasure of hearing a lecture by a very young and upcoming economist M R Venkatesh who also writes in different prestigious economic journals and websites. His lecture was on the prevailing economic crisis and its basic cause and prevention. If I strip the economical, financial and political jargon out of the [...]
Harassed husband commits suicide
BANGALORE: Lokesh (30), who was called by the Nandini Layout police for a settlement in a family dispute, allegedly consumed poison before entering the police station on Thursday and breathed his last on Saturday morning. The family held his wife responsible for his act and demanded compensation.
Following a missing complaint lodged by Poornima about her [...]
Quash criminal proceedings to prevent abuse
New Delhi: Criminal proceedings pending against an accused in a lower court can be quashed by the High Court exercising its inherent jurisdiction to prevent abuse of the process of court and to secure ends of justice, the Supreme Court has held.
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