NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has held that a solitary demand not followed by any harassment of the wife doesn’t constitute a dowry demand and is not punishable under section 304 B of Indian Penal Code. Justice V K Jain gave the ruling while acquitting three members of a man’s family who had appealed [...]
GUMLA: Police have arrested wife and son of minor irrigation department assistant engineer Sunil Kumar in connection with the latter’s murder. Kumar’s Srimati Srivastava and eldest son, Sumit, were rounded by Gumla police late on Friday evening from Ranchi’s Argoda Housing Colony in connection with the murder.
Kumar was shot dead at his official residence [...]
New Delhi, Dec. 16: The Rajya Sabha today passed the Dowry Prohibition Bill but after deleting a controversial explanation, added by the Lok Sabha, thus making the Bill more vigorous. To the definition of Dowry the Rajya Sabha made two other amendments in the Bill, one of which deletes the provision making penal “the demand” [...]
A man so afraid of his wife filing a false dowry case against him that he would torture his parents at her behest today earned rare immunity for his family from a domestic violence law said to be loaded against husbands and in-laws.
Justice P.K. Chattopadhyay of Calcutta High Court issued an order barring Beauty Saha, [...]
A Delhi court has expressed concern over growing propensity to rope in innocent persons as accused in cases relating to cruelty against married women and sought a vigilant approach from lower courts in prosecuting relatives of the accused husband.
“A tendency has emerged to rope in family members of the husband in cases of Section 498A [...]
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 [...]
AHMEDABAD: A city sessions court on Tuesday sentenced an NSUI member to life imprisonment in connection with a dowry death. His parents were also awarded 10-year jail term for abetting suicide.
As per the case details, Niraj Shukla from Bapunagar and Deepa Bajpai tied knots on December 13, 2006. After the marriage, Deepa complained to her [...]
In india, If you are involved in 1 Crore Rupees corruption case and caught with fire arms at home you will get Bail; If you have Political Blessings, but if you are victimised and charged falsely under Dowry law (ipc 498a) DVA (Domestic violence Act) will not get Bail.
Thats Judiciary of Great domocrazy India
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Misuse of women protection laws – 1.25 lakh women arrested without investigation
Over 5 lakh people arrested without investigation in the period 2004 to 2007 under cases of
IPC 498a. This includes 1.25 lakh women, 5000 senior citizens and 500 minor children.
These laws like IPC 498a should be amended to include compulsory investigation before arrest [...]
NEW DELHI: A husband and his relatives cannot be prosecuted for “cruelty” towards wife merely because the mother-in-law or other family members had kicked her or for that matter threatened her with divorce, the Supreme Court has held.
Similarly, if a mother-in-law gives constant sermons to the daughter-in-law or allegedly treated her shabbily by giving her [...]