Sir/Madam,
My wife has filed a false dowry harassment case against me and my family under sections 498a, 406 and 323 IPC. The prosecution witnesses besides my wife are her parents and sister. Her parents and sister in their CrPC 161 statements have not mentioned any specific incident (although my wife has stated numerous in the FIR) and have only stated that they have given a lot of dowry at the time of marriage and that their daughter has been constantly tortured and harassed by me and my family for dowry. Now my question is that during their examination in chief can the CrPC 161 witnesses narrate specific incidents to corroborate the ones mentioned by my wife in the FIR in the garb of elaborating what they meant by torture and harassment for dowry? If they can legally do so, then the entire objective and purpose of using their Crpc 161 statements to contradict them would be futile as they did not mention those specific incidents of cruelty earlier in their CrPC 161 statements. If there is any judgment which can help me in this matter, kindly mention the citation.
Regards,
Rajiv Ranjan.
