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Recently, the Supreme Court (on November 30) while quashing the criminal proceedings for the offence of cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, observed that one occurrence, unless...

Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) noted that there was no evidence to support the wife's claim that she was mercilessly beaten and also was tortured for dowry.

The Court opined that the parents-in-law of the complainant had been unnecessarily dragged into the marital dispute and quashed the case against them.

Such type of cases are being filed in the heat of the moment over trivial issues, without proper deliberation, the Court observed.

The High Court upheld sentence of a man convicted for demanding dowry from his wife which ultimately drove her to suicide.

The Court also held that a person can be convicted for Section 498A, IPC (cruelty to wife) even if he is acquitted under Section 304B IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) because the former has a broader scope

In a matrimonial house, a wife should not be treated as chattel or bonded labour and made to stay under conditions imposed by her husband, observed the Chhattisgarh High Court recently.

Jharkhand High Court ruled that failing to provide adequate medical assistance to one's spouse to pressurize them for dowry would fall within the scope of cruelty as defined in Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code.

A bench led by Justice Pavankumar Bajanthri refused to accept the argument of the husband that he had performed second marriage in 2004 after taking prior consent of his first wife, with whom he had married in May 1978.

The Supreme Court recently quashed the criminal proceedings initiated at the instance of a wife against her in-laws for the offence of cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code after noting...