https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200078 Section 3 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 prescribes a minimum sentence of five years, and a lesser term is permissible only when the judgment records adequate and special reasons. A sentence of three months, later reduced to four days in revision, was treated as legally unsustainable because no such reasons were recorded and the punishment was grossly disproportionate to the offence. The conviction was left intact, but the punishment had to be reconsidered to comply with the statutory minimum and the requirement of recorded special reasons. en-us Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:51:24 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200078 Section 3 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 prescribes a minimum sentence of five years, and a lesser term is permissible only when the judgment records adequate and special reasons. A sentence of three months, later reduced to four days in revision, was treated as legally unsustainable because no such reasons were recorded and the punishment was grossly disproportionate to the offence. The conviction was left intact, but the punishment had to be reconsidered to comply with the statutory minimum and the requirement of recorded special reasons. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200078