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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...