The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that a woman meting out cruelty on another woman becomes a more serious offence, as it upheld the conviction of the (now) 80-year-old mother-in-law of the deceased, under the IPC s Section 498A, and sentenced her to three months imprisonment.
A man in west Afghanistan s Herat province sold his 10-year-old daughter for marriage without telling his wife, in order to keep his other children alive and fed.