The Jharkhand High recently held that not providing proper medical aid to one s wife to enforce the demand of dowry would come within the definition of cruelty as enunciated under Section 498A of.
The Jharkhand High Court recently observed that while Section 498A of the IPC was introduced with the laudable object of punishing cruelty by husbands or their relatives on married women, it is currently being misused.
The Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court recently rejected an application filed for tranfer of trial proceedings from Nagpur to Akola for offences under 498-A of the Indian Penal Code.