MUMBAI: Filing a false criminal case against the husband and in-laws for harassment amounts to cruelty and is ground for divorce, the Bombay high court. "Humiliation. .. that is caused on account of arrest and detention of appellant and his family members and relatives in a false case does constitute mental cruelty to enable the husband to seek decree of divorce on this sole ground," said a division bench of Justices A P Deshpande and R P Sondurbaldota while granting divorce to a Pune resident.
Filing false case against in-laws is cruelty: HC
Friday, April 16, 2010
Old couple lose house, blame misuse of dowry Act
Old couple lose house, blame misuse of dowry Act
LUCKNOW: First the context. In 1994, in the case of Joginder Kumar vs State of UP, the supreme court made the following observations. That under section 498 A (Dowry Harassment) of the Indian Penal Code, "No arrest could be made in a routine manner or on a mere allegation of commission of an offence made against a person."
LUCKNOW: First the context. In 1994, in the case of Joginder Kumar vs State of UP, the supreme court made the following observations. That under section 498 A (Dowry Harassment) of the Indian Penal Code, "No arrest could be made in a routine manner or on a mere allegation of commission of an offence made against a person."
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