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Court refuses to quash dowry case against NRI

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has refused to quash a dowry harassment case against a non-resident Indian, his mother and sister-in-law saying that it does not have the jurisdiction to allow their plea as the case was registered at Digha, a suburb of Patna, where the victim has her ancestral home.

However, Justice S. N. Dhingra transferred the case to the police station having the jurisdiction here in the Capital. He directed the Director-General of Bihar Police to send the case file to the Delhi police for further action.

The parents of the victim’s husband stayed in the Capital and the marriage was also solemnised here in June 1998. The couple had stayed here for some time after the marriage before they migrated to the US.

The victim’s father had filed the case at Digha against his son-in-law, his mother and the sister-in-law on the ground that the son-in-law had once visited the town and asked for some money from him for booking air tickets to the US for his daughter.

He further alleged that his son-in-law, his mother and sister-in-law tortured his daughter mentally and physically for dowry. She was tortured here in Delhi as well as in the US, the victim’s father alleged.

Transferring the case to the Delhi police, Mr. Justice Dhingra said that to lodge a case at a place where the victim resides was against the established procedure. Cases are registered only where crimes are committed, he clarified.

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