BENGALURU: Karnataka high court rejected a petition to quash a dowry death case despite the victim’s suicide note not naming anyone.Justice M Nagaprasanna’s verdict, on plea filed by a Bengaluru man and his parents, cited prima facie evidence of harassment. Court said the victim’s final note cannot override substantive allegations of matrimonial cruelty. The victim…
RAIPUR: “Repeated threats of suicide constitute cruelty,” Chhattisgarh high court has said, while granting divorce to a husband and dismissing the wife’s plea for restitution of conjugal rights.“When such statements (suicide threats) are frequently made, no spouse can live peacefully. In this case, the husband has provided substantial evidence that the wife repeatedly threatened to…
PATNA: The Patna high court, in one of its recent verdicts, held that calling wife “bhoot” (ghost) and “pishach” (vampire) does not amount to cruelty in case of a failed matrimonial relations of a couple.A single bench of justice Bibek Chaudhury, while allowing the criminal revision case of one Sahdeo Gupta and his son Naresh…
