Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 639 · Decided 29 August 2024
Mulakala Malleshwara Rao & ANR. v. State of Telangana & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 639 · [2024] 8 S.C.R. 739
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3599/2024
- Decided
- 29 August 2024
- Bench
- J.K. MAHESHWARI, SANJAY KAROL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 406, 6; CrPC; Hindu Succession Act Section 14, 5; Succession Act Section 14, 5
Headnote
The complaint, which set in motion the Criminal Law, was at the instance of Respondent No.2-complainant, who filed the same against the former in-laws of his elder daughter, for not returning the ornaments (gold) which he had given at the time of her marriage with and substance of the present dispute lie in the father's right over the gifts, i.e.,'stridhan' given by him to his daughter at the time of marriage. Penal Code, 1860 - s.406 - Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 - s.6 - Hindu Succession Act,
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