accused is, by reason of a previous conviction, liable either to enhanced punishment or to a punishment of a different kind for such offence ... application for compromise before a Court and the Court can accept a request for compounding an offence under section 498-A of the Indian Pena
Penalty for breach of protection order by respondent
(1) A breach of protection order, or of an interim protection order, by the respondent shall ... section (1), the Magistrate may also frame charges under section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) or any other provision
filed a complaint and the police registered a complaint under Section 354
of the IPC. The brother of the respondent-wife also lodged a complaint ... a
Family Court either by itself or by directing the parties to explore the
possibility of settlement through mediation, a complaint under Section 498-
A
within the meaning of Section
304-B and 498-A IPC. Explanation (a) to Section 498-A itself
refers to both mental and physical cruelty ... a quarrel a day before her
death. This by itself, in our considered opinion, would
constitute to be a wilful act to be a cruelty
which reads as
under:
"707. Abetment of a thing - A person abets the doing of a thing, who-First-
Instigate any person ... induce a similarly
circumstanced individual in a given society to commit suicide, the
conscience of the Court should not be satisfied for basing a finding
apply to the offence. [198-A. Prosecution of offences under section 498-A of the Indian penal Code. [Inserted by Act 46 of 1983, Section ... Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) except upon a police report
a valid cession of such territory took place at the date mentioned in such notification. 113-A. Presumption as to abetment of suicide by a ... this section, "cruelty" shall have the same meaning as in section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).] 113-B. Presumption
default
simple imprisonment for 3 months and conviction under
Section 498-A read with Section 34 IPC and sentence of one
year rigorous imprisonment ... oblivious that in a criminal trial the
degree of proof is stricter than what is required in a civil
proceedings. In a criminal trial however
A: Husband or relative of husband of a
woman subjecting her to cruelty- Whoever,
being the husband or the relative of the
husband of a ... mentioned in Section 498-A. A
person charged and acquitted under Section 304-B can be
convicted under Section 498-A without that charge being
etymological sense would be a `relative'. The word `relative' brings within
its purview a status. Such a status must be conferred either ... Simply because A-6 is having
illicit intimacy with A-1, it cannot be said that she
is a relative of A-1. Accordingly
