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: Allahabad High Court Bench: Justice Raghunath Kishore Rastogi Pankaj Mishra And Others vs State Of U.P. And Another on 17/5/2006 Amit Kumar , C.L. Pandey , P.K. Misra , Renu Rajat and Samit Gopal, Advocates For the appellant. Govt. Advocate and Kamal Krishna For the respondent. Law Point: Non compoundable case to be dropped when husband and wife settled dispute amicably […]
Court: Patna High Court Bench: JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR Dhananjay Kumar Tiwary vs State Of Bihar & Anr on 20 September, 2010 Mr.Akhileshwar Prasad Singh, Adv. For the appellant. Mrs. Indu Bala Pandey, APP For the respondent. Law Point: Second complaint on same grounds, abuse of law. JUDGEMENT Rakesh Kumar,J. In compliance of the order dated 6.9.2010 learned counsel for the petitioners files […]
Court: Gujarat High Court Bench: JUSTICE AKIL KURESHI Vinodbhai vs State on 21 September, 2010 Law Point: Complainant left the company 14 years back of the accused, continuting 498A is abuse of process of law JUDGEMENT Petitioners are common in both the petitions. Original complainant, respondent No.2 is also common. Petitioner No.1 is the brother of […]
Court: Gujarat High Court Bench: JUSTICE AKIL KURESHI Akhileshwarsingh Arunkumar Singh Vs. State Of Gujarat on 22/09/2010 MR MATAFER R PANDE, Adv. For the appellant. MR KARTIK PANDYA, APP. For the respondent. Law Point: No case of dowry demand or cruelty as husband not part of any such incidents. Proceedings qua the husband quashed JUDGEMENT 1. Counsel for the petitioner stated that respondent no.2 […]
Court: High Court of Delhi Bench: JUSTICE SHIV NARAYAN DHINGRA Rajesh Dhingra And Ors. vs The State And Ors. on 22 October, 2007 Law Point: 498 A Quashed – Filed by an impersonator and a cheat wife JUDGEMENT 1. This petition under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India has been filed for quashing of FIR […]
Court: High Court of Delhi Bench: JUSTICE SHIV NARAYAN DHINGRA Ms. Sangita Bhayana for the petitioners’ Complainant in person. Ms. Richa Kapoor for State on 28.03.2007 Law Point: 498 A Quashed – Against sister and mother in laws where the wife resiled on the compromise JUDGEMENT This is a petition under Section 482 Cr. P.C. for […]
Court: Jharkhand High Court Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice D.K.Sinha Ajit Kumar Rai & Ors vs State Of Jharkhand & Anr on 25 March, 2011 Law Point: No overt act has been attributed, 498A and 494 of IPC quashed JUDGEMENT The petitioners have invoked the inherent jurisdiction of this Court under section 482 of the Code of […]
Court: High Court of Delhi Bench: JUSTICE PRADEEP NANDRAJOG Sanjeev Kumar Aggarwal vs State & Anr. on 12.10.2007 Mr. R.M.Sinha, Adv. For the appellant. Mr. Sanjay Khanna and Mr. Jaideep Malik For the respondents. Law Point: 406 quashed for all as no specific allegations of entrustment of istridhan made in complaint. Each person’s charges dissected by Judge before quashing charges against all […]
Court: High Court of Delhi Equivalent citations: 118 (2005) DLT 476, I (2005) DMC 659, 2005 (81) DRJ 15 Bench: JUSTICE S Agarwal Shadi Lal And Anr. vs Smt. Anita And State on 16 March, 2005 Law Point: Continuation of 498A proceedings after mutual settlement is abuse of process JUDGEMENT 1. By this Petition under […]
Court: Allahabad High Court Bench: Hon’ble Bhanwar Singh, J., Hon’ble J. M. Paliwal, J. Dharm Raj Yadav and others vs State of U.P. and others on 10/01/2006 Law Point: FIR quashed against all family members as wife fabricated well-documented story in the FIR JUDGEMENT This writ petition has been filed by Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, an […]