The Supreme Court quash a case under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) towards a women’s parents-in-law, observed that the high courts should observe the possibility of malafides behind the criticism while handling the requests of the family of the husband under Section 482 of the CrPC.
According to a file, a bench of justices Manoj Misra and Manmohan said that during cases arising from matrimonial disputes, in particular wherein allegations are levelled after many years of marriage and after one party filed divorce court cases against each other, the “courtroom need to be circumspect in taking the allegations at their charges.”
Supreme Court quash a case under Section 498A
According to the file, the supreme court became dealing with a case wherein a wife’s husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law approached the Gujarat high courtroom seeking quashing of FIR lodged against them under Sections 498A/411 IPC. However, the high court room had dismissed their petition.
The man and his spouse were married in 2005. Three days after the husband filed a divorce case, the wife lodged an FIR towards him and her in legal guidelines. While in search of quashing the legal complaints, the accused husband and his family in the high court argued that the FIR became a “counterblast” to the divorce complaints and an abuse of the court process.
Court’s response on Case
Supreme Court quash a case and mentioned that the complainant said there had been no issues in the marriage to begin with. When the parents-in-law start to live with the couple, she allegedly had to go through scoffs over trivial problems. The court stated that the spouse was employed when you consider that 2008, stayed at different rented hotels post-marriage, and allegedly used at hand over her salary to her father-in-law, who deprived her of it.
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