Recently, overturning the Allahabad High Court’s Judgment the Supreme Court has quashed criminal proceedings lodged for Dowry Death and Dowry Demand against a man and a woman, observing that the husband’s family members are frequently named as accused in matrimonial disputes by making passing reference of them in the FIR. A Divison Bench of Justices
[498A & 304B] Casual Reference of Family Members of Husband in FIR Not Enough to Prosecute, Rules Supreme Court
