Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 291 · Decided 11 April 2011
Sunita Kumari Kashyap v. State of Bihar and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 291 · [2011] 6 S.C.R. 83
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 917/2011
- Decided
- 11 April 2011
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 406, 3, 4; CrPC Section 178(c), 178, 179
Headnote
A B Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.178(c) - Criminal proceedings - Maintainability of - Territorial jurisdiction - Allegation made by wife that husband and in-laws subjected C her to ill-treatment and cruelty at her matrimonial home at Ranchi and that she was sent back to her parental home of dire consequences for not fulfilling their demand of dowry - Criminal proceedings initiated by appellant-wife at Gaya against husband and in- D laws - Whether the Judicial Magistrate, Gaya had the · jurisdiction to entertain the criminal case instituted by the appellant - Held, Yes - The
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