Till now any wife punished for false 498a

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

Sir ,my wife is a government teacher earning 40thousand per month she has filed case under 498a against me and my old widow mother ,she had ousted my old widow mother from home saying her dain (witch)she and his unemployed father are demanding 15 lakhs of rs from me to withdraw the case of 498a,I am working in a pharma company my salary is 19000 per month my mother got anticipatory bail from civil court whrereas my bail petition is pending before jharkhand high court where the order for stay the arrest warrant till the case is pending before the court is issued the Hc had sent the case to JHALSA for mediation and where my wife demanded 15 lakhs and I am not able to fulfill the exorbitant demand the counciliation has been failed and some people are telling me that my anticipatory bail petiotion will be rejected as the conciliation has failed,please advice me in this matter is there any judgement copy that the working women getting higher salary is not entitled for alimony or compensation and will the court not look in the merit of the case and decide the bail petition on monetary terms only

If wife is working no maintanence to her .

Though there are sporadic news reports about the same. No concrete HC/ SC judgements in this regard.

Regards,

Shonee Kapoor

is there no point trying to fight back in that case?

No Shonee,

There is SC ruling, no maintenance for earning wife