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‘IPC Section 498A no panacea for matrimonial ills’: Karnataka High Court quashes dowry FIR

Karnataka High Court quashes dowry harassment FIR, observing that IPC Section 498A addresses grave cruelty but is not a ...
LiveLaw

Forced Unnatural Sex By Husband Is Cruelty U/S 498A IPC, But Not Rape Due To Marital Exception: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, in a husband's petition seeking quashment of FIR, observed that while forced unnatural sex by ...

Stranger can’t be booked under Section 498A of IPC that deals with offence of cruelty against woman only by her ‘relatives’: Karnataka HC

Karnataka HC rules strangers cannot be charged under IPC Section 498A, limiting cruelty claims to relatives only.

Wife filed criminal cases against husband’s parents under Section 498A for instigating their son to demand dowry from her; she lost case in SC for this reason

Wife said her family gave Rs 4.5 lakh cash, 9 tola gold at the time of marriage but after 8 years of marriage the husband ...
LiveLaw

Section 498A IPC Targets Only Grave Cruelty, Not Incompatibility Or Imperfect Marriages: Karnataka High Court

While quashing a 498-A IPC case registered by a woman against her husband and in-laws the Karnataka High Court said “The law ...
Law Web

Supreme Court: Vague and omnibus allegations in a Section 498A FIR fail to constitute cruelty without specific instances or evidence

Merely stating that the Accused-Appellant has mentally harassed the complainant-Respondent No. 2 with respect to a demand of dowry does not fulfil the ingredients of Section 498A ...
Mint

Section 498A: Centre may review the domestic violence law

NEW DELHI: In what may result in the first review of the new Indian criminal codes, the Centre has started discussions on the misuse of Sections 85 and 86 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) that ...

Neighbours cannot be booked under Section 498A: High Court

Bengaluru: In a significant ruling on the scope of dowry harassment laws, the Karnataka High Court has clarified that ...