Some years back, I was sucked into the labyrinth of Indian Matrimonial laws and a false 498a in particular. To be fair, before it hit me, it was difficult for me to fathom the wide spread misuse of dowry laws and specially 498a in India.
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Court: Madras High Court Bench: JUSTICE K.N. Basha A. Govindarajan & Ors. Vs. Inspector General Of Police Decided on 19 February 2007 Law Point: Quashing of proceedings — Hurt, criminal breach of trust, cruelty, common intention, dowry demand — Points raised by petitioners to be considered only after recording evidence at appropriate time by Trial […]
Court: Karnataka High Court Bench: JUSTICE K. Sreedhar Rao Mohammed Ilias Vs. State Of Karnataka on 9 April 2001 Law Point: Cruelty, Attempt to Murder : Accused Absconding : Case Split up and Charge Sheet Laid Against other Accused, who were Acquitted : Evidence Produced in case of Accused cannot be Different from One Produced […]
Court: Punjab and Haryana High Court Bench: JUSTICE J.B. Garg Kavita Sharma And Another Vs. Megh Raj And Another Decided on 15 September 1993 Law Point: Wife did not come forward for joint petition- Whether wife has committed an offence of cheating? JUDGEMENT 1. Kavita Sharma and her brother Arun Kumar, have moved this petition […]
Court: Supreme Court Of India Bench: JUSTICE Aftab Alam & Ranjana Prakash Desai Chandralekha & Ors. Vs. State Of Rajasthan & Anr. on 14 December 2012 Law Point: Criminal Breach of Trust, Cruelty — Quashing of FIR — Allegations are extremely general in nature — No specific role is attributed to Husband and his Family. […]
The Ratio of This Judgement Has Been OverRuled By SupremeCourt Rupali Devi Vs. State Of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. Court: Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE Indrani Datta Bharat Singh Vs. State Of M.P. on 29 September 2010 Law Point: Cruelty, dowry demand — Limitation — Computation of period — Territorial jurisdiction — Allegations with […]
Court: Supreme Court Of India Bench: JUSTICES K. Venkataswamy & S.S. Mohammed Quadri Arun Vyas & Anr. Vs. Anita Vyas on 14 May 1999 Law Point: Discharge of Accused : After Taking Cognizance of Offence but before Trial of Case by Magistrate : Not Illegal — When there is prima facie evidence or material against […]
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE Suresh Kait Poonam Singh Vs State & Ors. on 22 August, 2013 Law Point: Allegations are so absurd that no reasonable man would accept the same, there is also no allegation of entrustment of any dowry article against the petitioners. Proceedings dropped JUDGEMENT Crl. M.A. Nos. 18903 & 18904/2011 […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: K.T. Thomas, M.B. Shah Satvinder Kaur vs State (Govt. Of N.C.T. Of Delhi) … on 5 October, 1999 Law Point: Investigation material collected by investigating officer cannot be judicially scrutinised for arriving at conclusion that whether particular police station would not have territorial jurisdiction JUDGEMENT JUDGMENT 1999 Supp(3) SCR […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: Arijit Pasayat, C.K. Thakker Y. Abraham Ajith & Ors vs Inspector Of Police, Chennai & Anr on 17 August, 2004 Law Point: The expression “cause of action” is, therefore, not a stranger to criminal cases. The expression “cause of action” has acquired a judicially settled meaning. JUDGEMENT Leave granted. […]
The Ratio of This Judgement Has Been OverRuled By SupremeCourt Rupali Devi Vs. State Of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. Court: Gujarat High Court Bench: JUSTICE KS JHAVERI Jadeja vs State on 13 December, 2010 Law Point: Quash on Jurisdiction JUDGEMENT 1.0 By way of this petition, the petitioners have prayed to quash and set aside the […]