1995 (9) TMI 410

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....aint to the Officer Incharge of Women Police Station, Bilaspur alleging demand of dowry, harassment and cruelty by respondents Nos. 1, 2 and 3 being the husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law respectively. The police-after making investigation, filed a charge sheet against the said respondents in the Court of the Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Bilaspur, indicating commission of an offence under....

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....tion for quashing the charge was rejected. It then proceeded to consider the application of respondents No. 2 and 3 for quashing the charge. In its order the High Court has observed that: On perusal of the record, it transpires that no specific overt act is attributed to the applicants 2 and 3, who are in-laws of the informant. The allegation that she was subjected to physical and mental ....

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.... we have gone through the complaint filed by the appellant and also the statements of Suresh Chandra Verma, father of the appellant, Devesh, elder brother of the appellant and Ramesh, cousin of the appellant. In her complaint the appellant has clearly stated that three or four months after the marriage her husband, her father-in-law and mother-in-law started harassing her as VCR was not given to h....

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....was asked to bring money for VCR by her husband and by the parent-in-law. From what we have pointed out, it becomes apparent that there was sufficient material for the learned Magistrate for framing a charge under Section 498(A) even against respondents No. 2 and 3. It further appears to us that the learned Government Advocate who appeared on behalf of the State before the High Court made the conc....