DEAR MR. QUERIST
FRAUD WAS COMMITTED BY HER AND NOT BY YOU AND HOW DID THEY FILE 498A ON YOU FOR CRUELTY TO WIFE . THERE IS A JUDGEMENT IN MARCH 2013 . A WILL MENTION A SHORT NOTE OF THAT SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT. A BENCH OF JUSTICES A.K.PATNAIK AND S.J.MUKHOPADAYA SET ASIDE A JUDGEMENT OF THE JABALPUR BENCH OF THE MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT ,WHICH HELD THAT SUCH CONDUCT ON THE PART OF BRIDEGROOM BHARAT BHUSHAN'S BROTHER AND THE LATTER'S WIFE WAS CERTAINLY AN ACT OF CRUELTY AND RESULTED IN MENTAL DISTRESS TO THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE JUST TWO MONTHS AFTER MARRIAGE .
CHANDRA BHUSHAN AND HIS WIFE WERE AGGRIEVED THAT THEY WERE CONVICTED OF CRUELTY AND DOWRY DEATH ALONG WITH THE BRIDEGROOM AND HIS PARENTS. MADHURI GOT MARRIED TO BHARAT BHUSHAN ON JUNE 10TH 2003 AND ON AUGUST 5TH THAT YEAR SHE CAME TO HER PARENT'S HOUSE , WHERE SHE HANGED HERSELF ON AUGUST 17TH. THE TRIAL COURT CONVICTED CHANDRA BHUSHAN AND HIS WIFE ALSO .
THE HIGH COURT , WHICH MAINTAINED THE CONVICTION HELD THAT THE DECEASED WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE BEEN IN MENTAL AGONY WHEN HER PARENTS WERE MAKING EFFORTS TO CALL CHANDRA BHUSHAN AND HIS WIFE ( APPELLANTS 2 AND 4 ) AND OTHER APPEALLANTS TO COME AND SETTLE THE DOWRY DISPUTE . YET THE COUPLE REFUSED TO GO AND SETTLE THE MATTER MERELY ON THE GROUND THAT THEY WERE FROM THE GROOMS SIDE . THIS WAS AN ACT OF CRUELTY TOWARDS THE NEWLY MARRIED WOMAN AND THEY, AONG WITH APPELLANTS 1 AND 3 WERE JOINTLY AND DIRECTLY LIABLE UNDER SECTION 304B AND 498A OF THE IPC ,THE HIGH COURT SAID .
THE SUPREME COURT ALLOWED THE APPEAL BY CHANDRA BHUSHAN AND HIS WIFE .WRITING THE JUDGEMENT , JUSTICE PATNAIK SAID : " CRIMINAL LIABILITY UNDER SECTION 304B IPC IS ATTRACTED NOT JUST BY THE DEMAND FOR DOWRY BUT BY AN ACT OF CRUELTY (TO) OR HARASSMENT [ OF THE WOMAN ] BY HER HUSBAND OR ANY OF HIS RELATIVE IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH DEMAND. ; THUS , UNLESS SUCH AN ACT ............ IS PROVED TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THE ACCUSED TO THE DECEASED SOON BEFORE HER DEATH..............., THE ACCUSED CANNOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR THE OFFENCE OF DOWRY DEATH UNDER SECTION 304B OR UNDER 'CRUELTY' SECTION 498A. WE DIRECT THAT THE BAIL BONDS FURNISHED BY APPEALLANTS 2 AND 4 STAND DISCHARGED .
YOU CAN GET THIS JUDGEMENT FROM THE WEBSITE AND I HOPE THAT THIS MAY BE OF SOME HELP TO YOUR ADVOCATE TO QUASH THE 498A CASE AGAINST YOU AND OTHERS IF ANY . IN THIS CASE ONLY TWO HAD GONE ON APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT . MAY BE THE REST WOULD HAVE GONE ON APPEAL LATER - JOSEPH WILFRED - 02/07/2013 AT 15.02 HRS .