Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 779 · Decided 31 August 2023
Abhishek v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 779 · [2023] 11 S.C.R. 507
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1457/2015
- Decided
- 31 August 2023
- Bench
- ANIRUDDHA BOSE, SANJAY KUMAR, SARASA VENKATANARAYANA BHATTI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3, 4, 498A; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: The question pertains to quashing of the FIR and the Criminal Case pending before the magistrate against the appellants, mother-in-law and two brother-in-laws u/s. 498A IPC and ss. 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. Penal Code 1860 - s. 498A - Harassment for dowry - In the midst of matrimonial dispute between husband and wife, complaint by wife-daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and brother-in-laws alleging that they subjected her to mental and physical harassment for dowry - Quashing of criminal proceedings:
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