Supreme Court of India
Prasanta Kumar Dhar v. The State of West Bengal
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What the Court ordered
For the aforesaid reason, preservation of family relationship has always been emphasised upon.
Judgment, page 10
In brief
The complainant married the Appellants' son on 01.02.2021 and, after her husband's transfer to Siliguri, began residing with the Appellants, her father-in-law and mother-in-law; a daughter was born on 17.07.2023. Following matrimonial discord, she left the matrimonial home and lodged a complaint on 21.11.2023 alleging verbal taunts, a dowry demand of Rs. 5 lakhs and a four-wheeler, denial of nutritional and medical support during pregnancy, taunts over the birth of a girl child, and that on 11.11.2023 the first Appellant and the husband came to her parental home and forced her to sign a declaration that she had received all her streedhan.…
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