Upholding the acquittal of in-laws in a case of dowry death and cruelty, the Gujarat High Court observed that the refusal to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...