Prosecution Initiated As Counter-Blast To Divorce Suit Is Abuse Of Process: Calcutta HC Quashes Section 498A Case Against In-Laws

The Calcutta High Court has quashed a domestic cruelty case pending against five in-laws, ruling that the prosecution was launched as a retaliatory “counter-blast” to a divorce petition. Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) allowed the criminal revisional application, holding that continuing the proceedings under Sections 498A, 323, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, against

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