Law Relating to Cruelty and Dowry Death

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Description
Law Relating to Cruelty and Dowry Death, by B.V.R. Sarma and R. Jagan Mohan Rao, contains important principles in the shape of Judgements by the Hon'ble Supreme Court. The first all-India legislative enactment relating to dowry to be added to the statute book was the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. It marked the beginning of a new legal framework of dowry harassment laws effectively prohibiting the demanding, giving and taking of dowry. Tho strengthen the Anti-Dowry Law and to stop instances of cruelty by the husband or his relatives against the wife, new provisions were added to the Indian criminal law in 1983 - Section 498A to the Indian Penal Code and Section 198A to the Criminal Procedure Code. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act was passed in 2005, introducing additional layer of protection from dowry harassment. Although laws against dowry have been in effect for decades in India, they have been largely criticised as being ineffective. The practice of dowry deaths and murders continues to take place unchecked in many parts of India adding to the concerns of enforcement.
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
1.    Abetment of suicide
2.    Abduction and murder
3.    Abetment of suicide - Cruelty - Conviction upheld
4.    Abetment of suicide - Cruelty - Extra-marital relationship by husband
5.    Abetment of suicide
6.    Abetment of suicide and cruelty to married woman
7.    Absence of pain or distress
8.    Absence of reasons - Sustainability
9.    Abuse of process
10.  Acquittal - Justifiability
11.  Acquittal by Trial Court - Conviction by High Court - Appeal
12.  Acquittal confirmed
13.  Addition of charge under Section 302 Indian Penal Code - Sustainability
14.  Administered poison
15.  Administration of justice - Judicial propriety
16.  Admissibility in evidence
17.  Admissibility of dying declaration
18.  Admissibility of extra-judicial confession
19.  Adultery
20.  Aggregate of sentences must not exceed the limit fixed in proviso (a) and (b)
        of sub-section (2) of Section 31 Code of Criminal Procedure
21.  Allegation of'mala fides against informant
22.  Allegations not established in prosecution
23.  Alteration of charge
24.  Annulling of criminal proceedings
25.  Anticipatory bail -Alleged dowry offences
26.  Anticipatory bail
27.  Appeal against conviction - Circumstantial evidence..
28.  Appeal against reversing the acquittal order
29.  Appellant charged for offences of cruelty to wife and dowry death - Acquitted for
        offence of cruelty but convicted for dowry death
30.  Appellate Court has power to review and re-appreciate the entire evidence
31.  Applicability of Section 498A
32.  Application for quashing FIR
33.  Appreciation of evidence
34.  Arrest fast, bringing humiliation, curtailing freedom and casting scars forever
35.  Assault
36.  Assaulting
37.  Bail
38.  Bail application
39.  Bail cancellation
40.  Bail cruelty
41.  Bar under Section 468 for taking cognizance
42.  Basic ingredients of Section 498A
43.  Beating continuously
44.  Benefit of doubt
45.  Bride burning
46.  Burn injuries
47.  Burns and death
& Chapters 48 to 383
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Author Details
B.V.R. Sarma is a retired Senior Law Officer of the Visakhapatnam Port Trust, Visakhapatnam. After completing Law fromandhra University he worked for more than 39 years in Visakhapatnam Port Trust, retiring in April 2005. He enrolled as an Advocate in July 2005 and completed L.L.M. in Labour Laws through the Distant Education  Course of Acharya Nagarjuna University.
R. Jagan Mohan Rao completed his graduation from MR College, Vizianagarm, in 1960, and postgraduation from Nagpur University in 1962, B.L., in 1965 and M.L. in 1967 from the College of Law, andhra University (AU). He worked as Research Associate, Benaras Law School, Varanasi (1967-69); Assistant Professor, University College of Law, AU (1970-76); Associate Professor of Law, AU (1976-83); Cambridge Academy Staff fellow (UK) (1977-78); Professor of Law, AU Law College (1983); Head of the Department of Law, AU (1986-89); Principal, Law College, AU (1990-93); and Dean, Faculty of Law, AU (1993-96). He has delivered Extension Lectures of Law of the Sea, Family Laws and Environmental Law in various universities in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Kerala.
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