Cruelty to Wife -- Taunt of Childlessness or Barren Woman -- Does not satisfy ingredients of cruelty under Section 498-A IPC
(i) Indian Penal Code, 1860, S.498-A -- Cruelty to Wife -- Taunt of Childlessness or Barren Woman -- A taunt calling the wife a barren woman during a mutual altercation over childlessness, with counter-abuses exchanged by both sides, does not amount to willful conduct intended to drive her to suicide or cause grave injury. Mere commenting on inability to conceive does not constitute cruelty under Section 498-A. (ii) Indian Penal Code, 1860, S.504 -- Intentional Insult -- Abusive Words During Domestic Altercation -- Abusive words uttered during a domestic quarrel, without premeditation and without intent to provoke a breach of public peace, do not meet the statutory threshold of intentional insult under Section 504. (iii) Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, S.3/4 -- Dowry Demand -- Belated and Unsupported Allegation -- A vague allegation of dowry demand introduced only at the end of a statement under Section 200 CrPC, absent from the original complaint and unsupported by other witnesses examined under Section 202 CrPC, does not justify summoning under Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. (iv) Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, S.482 -- Quashing of Criminal Proceedings -- Vague Omnibus Allegations and Selective Summoning -- Allegations of assault that are vague, omnibus, and unsupported by medical evidence, coupled with selective summoning of one accused among several without discernible rationale, justify quashing of the summoning order and proceedings as an abuse of the process of court.
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