{"id":22314,"date":"2012-08-05T11:41:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T06:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=22314"},"modified":"2012-08-05T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T06:11:02","slug":"man-acquitted-in-27-yr-old-dowry-harassment-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/man-acquitted-in-27-yr-old-dowry-harassment-case","title":{"rendered":"Man acquitted in 27-yr-old dowry harassment case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man sentenced to one year jail term by a <span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>magisterial court in a 27-year-old dowry harassment case has been acquitted<\/strong><\/span>, with the sessions judge ruling that he was convicted on<span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> &#8220;vague allegations&#8221;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Additional Sessions <span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Judge Rajeev Bansal<\/strong><\/span> let off Moradabad native Suresh Chand, observing that courts must not <span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>&#8220;be swayed away by complainant&#8217;s emotions&#8221; and &#8220;the prosecution case must stand on its own legs&#8221;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>\u00a0&#8220;The trial court has not reasoned as to how appellant is held guilty under Section 498A IPC when the allegations were vague and unspecific and there were improvements in deposition of witnesses including the complainant,&#8221;<\/em> <\/span>the judge said, setting aside the magisterial court&#8217;s April 2009 order.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>\u00a0&#8220;It is settled law that emotions cannot have precedence over depositions made in the court. The prosecution case has to stand on its own legs and is duty bound to prove its case beyond reasonable doubts.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The sessions judge also noted that the magisterial court had acquitted Chand&#8217;s mother Veero Devi of same allegations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0&#8220;Court is not to be swayed by emotions of the complainant. It has been noticed that whenever matrimonial relations between spouses turn sour, wild allegations are made. The complainant and the appellant, in the present case, have already been divorced and it is high time that such litigations are also buried once for all,&#8221;<\/strong> <\/span>the ASJ said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The case dates back to 1985, when Chand&#8217;s wife Jaimala lodged an FIR against her husband and his parents at Kotwali police station in Moradabad of Uttar Pradesh, alleging that they had been harassing her for\u00a0since 1982 for not meeting their demand of dowry.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Moradabad police filed a final report in the dowry harassment case in the court of district&#8217;s chief judicial magistrate in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Jaimala, meanwhile, moved the Supreme Court for transfer of the case to Delhi, following which its proceedings remained stayed till 1990, when the matter was transferred to the court of chief metropolitan magistrate here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The <span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Moradabad police<\/strong> <\/span>again filed a final report in the case before Delhi CMM in 1992 and charges were framed in 2002. Eventually the magisterial court acquitted all others in the case in April, 2009 barring Chand.<\/p>\n<p>Source: PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man sentenced to one year jail term by a magisterial court in a 27-year-old dowry harassment case has been acquitted, with the sessions judge ruling that he was convicted on &#8220;vague allegations&#8221;. \u00a0Additional Sessions Judge Rajeev Bansal let off Moradabad native Suresh Chand, observing that courts must not &#8220;be swayed away by complainant&#8217;s emotions&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[11573,11574,11580,1509,11581,11576,11572,11579,11578,11575,11577],"class_list":["post-22314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-27-yr-old-dowry-harassment-case","tag-demand-of-dowry","tag-dismissal-of-dowry-cases","tag-dowry","tag-dowry-cases-on-vague-grounds","tag-dowry-demand","tag-dowry-harassment-case","tag-dowry-under-indian-penal-code","tag-dowry-under-ipc","tag-harassment-for-dowry","tag-punishment-for-demand-of-dowry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Man acquitted in 27-yr-old dowry harassment case - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A man sentenced to one year jail term by a magisterial court in a 27-year-old dowry harassment case has been acquitted, with the sessions judge ruling - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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