Husband’s Request To Father-in-Law For Money To Arrange Job With Assurance Of Repayment Not ‘Dowry Demand’: Orissa High Court
Case: Bhanu Charan Pradhan v. State of Odisha
Coram: Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo
Case No.: CRA No. 10 of 2001
Court Observation: “In the case in hand, the request for arranging money for getting a job was not there at the time of marriage. It was also assured by the appellant to repay such amount as soon as possible. There is nothing on record as to when these two letters Exts.5 and 8 were written. In my humble view, this request of money by the appellant to arrange a job for himself cannot come within the definition of dowry’ as per section 2 of the Dowry Prohibition Act,”
“…there is lack of clinching evidence regarding demand of a gold necklace from the side of bridegroom and that since such demand was not fulfilled, in connection with such demand, there was torture to the deceased by the appellant,”
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