Mahalakshmi vs State Of Tamilnadu on 14 July, 2011
25.In such circumstances, the trial Court must consider all the aspects in a proper prospective with great care and caution. At this juncture, I have considered the decision relied upon by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner in Satya Narayan Tiwari and another V. State of Uttar Pradesh reported in 2010 AIR SCW 7144, wherein, the Apex Court has that crimes against women are not ordinary crimes committed in a fit of anger or for property. They are social crimes. They disrupt the entire social fabric. Hence, they call for harash punishment. Unfortunately, what is happeneing in our society is that out of lust for money, people are often demanding dowry and after extracting as much money as they can they kill the wife and marry again and then again they commit the murder of their wife for the same purpose. This is because of total commercialization of our society and lust for money which induces people to commit murder of the wife. The time has come when we have to stamp out this evil from our society, with an iron hand.