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New Indian Express
06-08-2025
- New Indian Express
In-laws can't be named accused in dowry case sans evidence: Telangana HC
HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has ruled that in domestic violence and dowry harassment cases, vague allegations made against in-laws, especially as part of a vendetta against the husband, cannot be sustained without supporting evidence. The court criticised the practice of including elderly in-laws in the list of accused without any concrete material and quashed the FIR filed against them. Justice Juvvadi Sridevi passed the order while hearing a petition filed by 74-year-old Govind Prasad and his wife Usha Sharma, residents of Chorburzi, Maharashtra. The couple had approached the court challenging their inclusion as accused in a case registered under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which deals with cruelty by husband or his relatives. After examining the records, the judge observed that there were no specific allegations made against the petitioners. The complainant had failed to provide any details of harassment, cruelty or dowry demands attributable to them. The court noted the absence of any concrete evidence against the in-laws. Finding no justification for their inclusion in the FIR, the high court ordered that the case against Govind Prasad and Usha Sharma be quashed.
United News of India
22-05-2025
- United News of India
Man sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of railway employee
Sitapur (UP), May 22 (UNI) A man was sentenced to life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 40,000 by a special court on Thursday for the murder of a railway employee in Mishrik area of Sitapur district here in Uttar Pradesh, prosecution sources said here. The sources said one Sangeeta Devi lodged an FIR on January 27, 2021 at the Mishrik police station that Hemendra alias Hemu Rathore called her husband Govind Prasad, a railway employee, on the pretext of a feast and murdered him in a planned manner. "It was alleged that Govind Prasad had lent Rs 4 lakh to Hemu to buy a tractor, which the accused was continuously avoiding to return," they said. The sources said based on evidence available on record the court of Additional Sessions Judge Vijay Kumar Azad sentenced the accused to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 40,000 for murder and 3 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 40,000 for criminal breach of trust. UNI XC AB SSP
