Delhi HC quashes dowry-harassment FIR against family of man who died by suicide

The Delhi High Court has quashed a dowry-harassment FIR lodged connected a ailment of a widow, whose hubby died by termination hardly 40 days aft the wedding.

Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, successful an bid passed connected Wednesday, said, “The woman’s complaint, erstwhile considered arsenic a whole, does not bespeak immoderate enactment of harassment oregon cruelty.”

The FIR was lodged against the deceased’s parents and sister for the alleged offences of cruelty inflicted connected the pistillate and transgression breach of trust. A plea was filed by the accused seeking the quashing of the FIR lodged against them successful 2016.

“It is evidently a lawsuit of vague allegations and a wide lawsuit of maltreatment of power, and it is not successful the involvement of justness if the contiguous proceedings are permitted to beryllium continued,” the tribunal said.

The mates got joined successful March 2016 and started surviving successful Pune. The woman’s in-laws had claimed that soon thereafter, differences arose betwixt the couple, and the antheral went into slump and was successful a disturbed and frustrated state.

The petitioners had claimed that they were allegedly terrorised by the woman’s parents, who threatened to implicate their full household successful a mendacious and frivolous lawsuit of dowry and home violence.

The petitioners told the tribunal that the antheral was “mentally and physically harassed” by the unwarranted acts and threatened by his woman and her parents, and died by termination connected April 13, 2016.

The court, successful its verdict, said it was an unfortunate lawsuit wherever the matrimony did not past adjacent for 40 days, and the hubby died by suicide, resulting successful sour relations followed by disfigured litigation.

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