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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
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| 12:36p | Woman told to pay Rs 5 lakh to in-laws in false dowry case Woman told to pay Rs 5 lakh to in-laws Nishikant Dwivedi Tribune News Service Yamunanagar, April 25 In a significant judgment, a local court has imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on a woman, who had made a frivolous complaint against her in-laws for dowry. The Judicial Magistrate said many instances had come to light where the complainants were not bonafide and had been filed with an oblique motive. The magistrate termed the case as a classic example for such an instance. Kanwalpreet Kaur of Model Town here had filed a complaint against brothers-in-law Davinder Pal Singh, Amarjeet Singh, Satwinder Singh and Gurbinder Singh, mother-in-law Gurbachan Kaur, sisters-in-law Balwinder Kaur and Jaswinder Kaur and niece Ritu under Sections 498-A in 1997. The court had quashed the names of Balwinder, Jaswinder and Ritu from the case in 2002. Kanwalpreet was married to Navjeet Singh in 1992. In her complaint, she had alleged that her in-laws were harassing her for more dowry. She had claimed that her brothers had given Rs 1.5 lakh to her in-laws in three installments. She had further alleged that she was thrown out of the house. In the order it had been said the remaining five accused were made to suffer on account of baseless and malicious allegation. To prevent such abuse of beneficial provision of Section 498-A of the IPC by women in future, the magistrate dismissed the complaint and acquitted the accused of the charges. The court directed Kanwalpreet to pay Rs 1 lakh to each of the five persons. |
| 1:02p | State incensitive to the plight of prisoners State NOT providing remissions EVEN AFTER prisoners have suffered 14 years in prison. Thousands of such prisoners languishing in prisons across the country State officials make appearance in apex court Apr 24, 2007 - 8:26:03 PM By IANS, [RxPG] New Delhi, April 24 - Home secretaries of 12 states were present in person in the Supreme Court Tuesday after they failed to comply with an earlier notice for filing their replies with regard to the life convicts languishing in jails in their respective states. The officials appeared before a bench of Justice H.K. Sema and Justice V.S. Sirpurkar, hearing a public interest litigation - filed by advocate M.K. Balakrishnan alleging that thousands of life convicts were languishing in jails across the country because the state governments did not exercise their power to grant remission to those lifers. The 12 states are: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttarakand and Jammu and Kashmir. The bench took on record the affidavits filed by the home secretaries and dispensed with their personal appearance for future hearing. It also adjourned the proceedings by four weeks. In January, the court took to task the states for not filing their response to the notice issued in 2004. Since even after a second chance affidavits were not filed the home secretaries were asked to be present in the court Tuesday. The petitioner alleged that the state governments were insensitive to the plight of thousands of prisoners who had completed 14 years in jail after the award of life sentence to them and had unblemished record in the prison. He said the state governments concerned had the power to grant remission of the sentence but for reasons not known, they were not exercising the same. http://www.rxpgnews.com/india/State-offi |
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