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9) In order to constitute an offence under Section 498A/IPC there should be sufficient materials to substantiate the contention of alleged physical and mental torture as claimed in the petition of complaint. In explanation (b) of Section 498A IPC "cruelty" has been defined as harassment of the woman where such harassment is with a view to coercing her or any person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any property or valuable security is on account of failure by her or any person related to her to meet such demand. Keeping that point in view the allegation in the complaint should be consistent with normal human behaviour. It is alleged that the respondent and other in-laws of the complainant inflicted torture upon her for extortion of dowry and it was so intense that she was forced to leave her matrimonial home two and a half months after her marriage. Thereafter no sane husband will follow her at her parent's house and will again cause any injury to her person on demand of dowry. This is a mere abnormal conduct which cannot be the basis of any prosecution in isolation of other allegations made against them at her in-laws house. This is merely to imbibe the jurisdiction of the Court where the complaint was lodged with the full knowledge that the Court had no jurisdiction within the meaning of Section 177 Cr.P.C.