While quashing a Section 498-A IPC case against a husband and in-laws of the wife, the Supreme Court today again cautioned about the tendency to implicate all the members of the husband's family when domestic disputes arise out of matrimonial discord. Also, the Court criticized the growing tendency to misuse provisions like Section 498-A IPC as a tool for unleashing …
The Kerala High Court has stated that body shaming of a woman by her sister-in-law would prima facie amount to wilful conduct to cause injury to health of a woman to attract an offence of cruelty under Section 498A of the IPC. The overt acts, at the instance of the petitioner, prima facie to be read as wilful conduct which …
The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a petition filed by a husband seeking to quash a case of dowry death registered against him under Sections 304B and 498A of IPC, after his wife, living separately since over two years, committed suicide in her parental house. A single judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna while dismissing the petition filed by one …
Emphasizing the duty of the Court to encourage genuine settlement of matrimonial disputes, the Supreme Court set aside conviction of a man under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.In this case, the husband was convicted under Section 498-A IPC and was sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment of three years. Emphasizing the duty of the Court to encourage genuine …
