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The Centre also told the court not to ‘blindly’ follow Western countries while hearing pleas asking for non-consensual sex in a marriage to be treated as rape.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that a woman meting out cruelty on another woman becomes a more serious offence, as it upheld the conviction of the (now) 80-year-old mother-in-law of the deceased, under the IPC's Section 498A, and sentenced her to three months imprisonment. �� Supreme Court Says Woman Meting Out Cruelty on Another Woman Becomes a More Serious Offence, Jails Woman For Cruelty Against Daughter-in-Law.
Punjab and Haryana High Court recently denied permission to an accused man seeking to travel abroad to Canada citing the pendency of the criminal trial
It was the case of the complainant (father of the deceased) that his daughter had committed suicide after she spoke on phone with her husband.
MUMBAI: "In the absence of legally admissible evidence there cannot be moral conviction," said the Bombay high court as it set aside a 2012 murder conviction and life sentence of three people, including a man whose wife had died due to asphyxiation from hanging. A bench of Justice Sadhana Jadhav and Justice N R Borkar recently ruled in a 2010 "cruelty to wife" case that there was evidence for conviction under section 498A of IPC. “In cases like the present one, just because the wife has died in her matrimonial house within two months of marriage, the entire family cannot be stigmatized as...