Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 486 · Decided 9 April 2019
Rupali Devi v. State of Uttar Pradesh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 486 · [2019] 6 S.C.R. 577
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 71/2012
- Decided
- 9 April 2019
- Bench
- RANJAN GOGOI, L. NAGESWARA RAO, SANJAY KISHAN KAUL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A; CrPC Section 179, 177, 178, 174, 176; Evidence Act Section 113A; Domestic Violence Act
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.498A - Jurisdiction - Whether in a case where cruelty had been committed in a matrimonial home by the husband or the relatives of the husband and the wife leaves the matrimonial home and takes shelter in the parental home place, the courts situated at the place of the parental home of the wife have jurisdiction to entertain the complaint under s.498A - Held: In the normal course, it is the court within whose local jurisdiction the offence is committed that would have the power and authority to take
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