When can a live-in relationship attract 498A, what proves an intention to marry, and what legal safeguards protect men and their families from vague allegations and automatic arrest? NEW DELHI: Thousands of couples in India live together believing th...
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Is an arrest automatic the moment a dowry complaint is filed? The law says otherwise and what most families don’t know can change everything in the first 48 hours. NEW DELHI: In matrimonial disputes involving dowry allegations, a major problem is th...
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The Centre said that it is not as if a woman’s consent is obliterated by marriage, but only that consent violations within marriage would not attract rape law; there are other remedies. The Union government filed an affidavit in the Supreme Cou...
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The Calcutta High Court’s Jalpaiguri bench recently held that the routine bickering between a husband and wife would not attract cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). A Single-Judge bench of Justice Sugato Majumdar, therefo...
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The Gujarat High Court on Friday held that a woman can file a complaint alleging cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) even after divorce, but it applies only for incidents that had taken place while the marriage was subsisting. J...
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In 1983, section 498A was introduced to protect a married woman against cruelty inflicted on her by her husband and/or husband’s relatives. This particular section provides protection to women against dowry-related harassment and cruelty.
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Even the Courts at the place where the wife resides after leaving the matrimonial home will have jurisdiction to entertain her complaint under Section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code, the Supreme Court has reiterated.
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