The Orissa High Court recently ruled that proceedings under Section 498A of IPC on husband cruelty to wife cannot be quashed by a High Court under Section 482 CrPC on the ground that there was no valid marriage. Single-judge bench of Justice G Satapathy stated that allowing the accused-man to plead absence of valid marriage
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