The Jharkhand High Court has clarified that once all the ingredients of an offence under Section 304-B are shown by the prosecution, only then the presumption of innocence fades, shifting the burden.
Twenty nine years after a woman was allegedly killed in her matrimonial home, the Allahabad High Court has set aside acquittal of the accused persons and ordered the trial court to pass fresh orders in the case
The Court also held that a person can be convicted for Section 498A, IPC (cruelty to wife) even if he is acquitted under Section 304B IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) because the former has a broader scope
In a heartwrenching case, where a girl committed suicide by setting herself on fire due to physical and mental torture committed by her in-laws demanding dowry, the Supreme Court convicted the.
The Delhi High Court recently observed that a husband’s extramarital affair or betting habits cannot be grounds to implicate him under Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which punishes dowry deaths.