Denying Cancer Treatment to Wife For Not Providing Dowry Amounts to Cruelty Under IPC, Says Jharkhand High Court
Three criminal revision pleas were heard by the Court. Sanjay Kumar Rai, the husband, filed one appeal against his conviction under Section 498A of the IPC. The second was submitted by the informant's wife, Neelam Devi, later replaced by her father, Ram Kripal Singh, when she died.
The Jharkhand High Court has held that failing to offer proper medical treatment to wife in order to pressurise her for dowry would be considered cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. Sanjay Kumar Rai, the accused-husband, was found guilty of cruelty towards his wife Neelam Devi, who was suffering from cancer, by a single-judge Justice Ambuj Nath. Three criminal revision pleas were heard by the Court. Sanjay Kumar Rai, the husband, filed one appeal against his conviction under Section 498A of the IPC. The second was submitted by the informant's wife, Neelam Devi, later replaced by her father, Ram Kripal Singh, when she died. In her petition, she contested the magistrate court's acquittal ruling issued in December 2010 in favour of the opposing parties, her in-laws. The informant's father filed a third appeal, disputing the acquittal of the victim's brother-in-law, Bhageshwar Roy. HC on Suicide by Wife: Woman's Suicide at In-Laws' House Doesn’t Automatically Make Husband, In-Laws Guilty of Harassment, Abetment, Says Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Denying Treatment to Wife For Not Providing Dowry Amounts to Cruelty, Says HC
Depriving cancer treatment to wife for not bringing dowry amounts to cruelty: Jharkhand High Court
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