Criminal Law - Matrimonial Cruelty – Section 498A IPC – Dowry Demand – Conviction Upheld – Petitioner No. 1, who married PW1 on 09.01.2000, along with his parents (Petitioners 2 and 3), subjected PW1 to physical and mental cruelty demanding more dowry, assaulted her while pregnant on 26.06.2000, and expelled her from the matrimonial home – Trial Court convicted all th...
Criminal Law – Murder – Burning of Wife – Concurrent Conviction – Dying Declaration – Reliability – The appellant was convicted under Sections 302 and 342 IPC by the Sessions Judge, Bundi and sentenced to life imprisonment with rigorous imprisonment of one year respectively – High Court confirmed the conviction – Appellant challenged concurrent findi...
Criminal Law – Quashing of Summoning Order – Section 482 Cr.P.C. – Streedhan – Section 406 IPC – Applicant No.1 (wife) lodged FIR against opposite party No.2 (husband) for offences under Sections 498-A, 323 IPC and Sections 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act – Charge-sheet filed against the husband – Maintenance of Rs. 4,000/- per month and Rs. 1,000/- per m...
Arms Act – Section 25(1-B)(a) – Possession in Violation of Section 3 – Licence Holders – FIR registered against petitioners who were licensed holders of revolvers on the allegation that their driver clicked photographs with the weapons and posted them on social media — No allegation anywhere in the prosecution case that petitioners acquired, possessed or carried any f...
Prevention of Corruption Act – Quashing of Proceedings – Sub-Inspector of Police – Demand of Illegal Gratification – Absence of Material Evidence – Petitioner-accused No.3, working as Sub-Inspector of Police at Kamareddy Police Station, was arrayed in Crime No.05/RCO/ACB-NZB/2020 for offences under Sections 7(a)(c) and 12 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Sectio...
Rape – Consensual Relationship – Section 375 IPC – FIR Quashed – Petitioner, a skating coach, allegedly developed physical relations with the prosecutrix, wife of the complainant, over a prolonged period – FIR lodged by the husband on the ground that the petitioner had forcibly committed rape and blackmailed the prosecutrix – Prosecutrix, a qualified dentist age...
Criminal Law – Anticipatory Bail – SC/ST (POA) Act – Section 14A(2) – Role of Accused in Custodial Death – Deceased Darshan was taken to Vivekanagara Police Station on 13.11.2025 without registration of case — detained illegally from 01.30 a.m. of 13.11.2025 to 08.30 p.m. of 15.11.2025 — thereafter sent to a rehabilitation centre where he was allegedly sub...
Maintenance – Divorced Wife – Section 125 CrPC – Revision – Petitioner-husband, employed as Assistant Manager in State Bank of India drawing a monthly salary of Rs.60,000/-, challenged the Family Court's order granting maintenance of Rs.10,000/- per month to the opposite party-wife from 22.12.2017 along with Rs.3,000/- as litigation expenses – The marriage was dis...
Contempt of Courts – Criminal Contempt – Safety of Judicial Officers – SIR of Electoral Rolls – Suo Motu Action – Seven judicial officers, including three women, were gheraoed by anti-social elements at the BDO office, Kaliachowk, Maldah District, West Bengal, while discharging duties relating to adjudication of objections under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of...
Criminal Law – POCSO and BNS Offences – Quashing of FIR – Post-Settlement Marriage – Petition Allowed – FIR was lodged at the instance of the parents of the prosecutrix at Police Station Dhamnod, District Dhar, under BNS and POCSO Act – Prosecutrix had been a consenting party and was forced to depose against the petitioner by her parents – Subsequent to re...