More than 7,000 women were killed or moved to suicide in 2017 as a result of dowry harassment by their husbands or families-in-law, according to India’s National Crime Records Bureau. In the first 16 ...

A man's extramarital affair or betting habits cannot be grounds to implicate him under Section 304B of Indian Penal Code (IPC) which punishes wife's dowry death, observed Delhi High Court recently, ...

A person cannot be prosecuted in a dowry death case unless he is related to the victim’s husband by “blood, marriage or adoption,” the Supreme Court held on Thursday. HT Image A bench of Justice CK ...

NEW DELHI: Nearly 35 years after Parliament enacted Section 304B of Indian Penal Code to punish those accused of dowry deaths, the Supreme Court on Friday plugged a much-exploited legal loophole ...

The court clarified that Section 304B IPC mandates drawing of a presumption that the husband or relatives of the husband of the victim girl had caused her death in case the essential ingredients ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that a person cannot be convicted for merely demanding dowry unless the demand is followed by mental or physical torture resulting in the death of the victim. A Bench of ...

The court, however, set free the accused of the offences punishable under Section 304B IPC and Section 3 and 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, as the prosecution failed to prove the victim was subjected to ...

The court released the applicant subject to certain conditions. Offence of dowry death strikes at the foundations of dignity, equality and justice in domestic life, but there is no blanket prohibition ...

The Delhi High Court has held the place -- parental or matrimonial -- where a married woman is driven to kill herself had no bearing in a dowry death case and refused bail to a man. Justice Girish ...