 "Court denounces tendency to implicate distant kins in dowry cases")
There is a tendency of implicating distant relatives in dowry cases, which should be depreciated, a Delhi court has observed.
Additional Sessions Judge, Ramesh Kumar, made the observation while dismissing a review petition filed against a trial court order, which had discharged a groom and his married sister, who were accused of demanding dowry.
"The tendency of falsely implicating distant relatives, more particularly, the married sisters of the husband should be depreciated. The married sisters, most of the times, have no role to play in the married life of their brothers and their wives.
"Charge can be framed against them only if, prima facie, there is strong and sufficient material depicting their involvement," the judge said.
The court passed the order noting that the complainant's sister-in-law was already married and living separately from the complainant and her husband, adding that she was not being in a position to commit the offence as mentioned in the complaint.
A woman had filed a complaint against her husband and his family in 2006 for allegedly subjecting her to cruelty and criminal breach of trust in connection with an alleged dowry demand.
The trial court, however, discharged woman's sister-in- law and her husband. Thereafter, an appeal was filed before the sessions court.
