Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 329 · Decided 12 November 1987
Shobha Rani v. Madhukar Reddi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 329 · [1988] 1 S.C.R. 1010
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3013/1987
- Decided
- 12 November 1987
- Bench
- B.C. RAY, K. JAGANNATHA SHETTY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A; Hindu Marriage Act Section 13(1), 13
Headnote
RANI v. MADHUKAR REDDI NOVEMBER 12, 1987 B [B.C. RAY AND K. JAGANNATHA SHETTY,'JJ.) c Hindu Marriage Act, 1955: Section 13(1)(i-a)-'Cruelty'­ Demand for dowry-Whether cruelty-Whether wife entitled to decree for dissolution of marriage-'Intention'-Whether necessary to consti­ tute and prove 498A-'Cruelty'-What is­ Demand for dowry-Whether amounts to cruelty-Whether wife D entitled to decree for dissolution of marriage. The appellant-wife, a post-graduate in biological sciences, married the respondent-husband, a medical doctor on December 19, 1982. Soon after, relations between
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