New Delhi:
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that an additional relationship of a person does not give funds to cruelty or suicide until it shows upset or suffering to the wife.
Justice Sanjeev Narula said that in the absence of a nexus between the alleged relationship and the demand for dowry, there was not an additional relationship to implicate the husband for the death of dowry.
The court, as a result, granted bail to a person, who was arrested in a case under Section 498A (Cruelty)/304-B (dowry death) in a case, which was different from Section 306 (eradication of suicide) of the IPC, after his wife’s unnatural death in his maternal home within March 18, 2024.
“The prosecution depends on the material to suggest that the applicant was involved in an additional relationship with a woman. However, considering such a relationship, the law is decided that an additional relationship of the law is not cruelty under Section 498A IPC, unless there was no kind of crisp, unless there was no kind of crisp,” the court did not have a crusher under section 306. Did.
The verdict gives, “An additional relationship cannot be a basis for implicating the accused under Section 304B IPC. The court admitted that harassment or cruelty should be linked with dowry demands or constant mental cruelty, which ‘before death.” The person was in custody since March 2024, and the court noted that his continuous opposition would not be a purpose. The court further saw that a charge sheet was filed after the conclusion of the investigation and there was no possibility of the conclusion of the test in the near future.
There was no risk of tampering with evidence or escape from justice and it was well established that the purpose of bail was neither punitive nor preventive, it was added.
The court released its release with two fixed amount on a personal bond of Rs 50,000.
The woman’s family alleged that the husband had a relationship with her colleague and physically abused when she is encountered.
The person was accused of regularly subjugating his wife to subjected to domestic violence and to secure EMI payment from his family for that car.
The court noticed that no such complaint was made by the woman or her family when she was alive and so Prima Facial had reduced the immediary and plausibility of dowry -related harassment claim.
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