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High Court quashes framing of charges

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has quashed the framing of charges against a woman charged with subjecting her sister-in-law to cruelty for dowry, saying that there was not an iota of evidence against her.

The complainant (sister-in-law) had left her matrimonial home just after ten days of marriage leaving behind a long letter addressed to her husband. She went to live with her father and never returned. Thereafter she lodged a complaint through her father alleging that her husband, his sister and their parents had tortured her for dowry.

In his judgment, Justice S. N. Dhingra said: "It seems that the complainant, who left the matrimonial home due to failure of physical relationship and the resultant dissatisfaction, later thought of implicating every member of her husband's family in an anti-dowry and cruelty case."

`Vague allegations'

Initially, she (the complainant) levelled vague allegations against everybody and thereafter made a supplementary statement alleging that her father had spent more than Rs. 22 lakhs on her marriage, the judgment said.

However, there was no such claim in the complaint filed by her father, the judgment added.

"I consider it a fit case where the criminal proceedings against the petitioner be quashed," Mr. Justice Dhingra said.

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