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Calling wife ‘stupid’ and ‘useless’ not cruelty: Supreme Court quashes dowry death case

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    Calling a woman “stupid” and “useless” cannot qualify as an offence of cruelty or criminal intimidation, the Supreme Court has said while quashing a dowry death case against a man whose wife died by suicide in Toronto, Canada, in 2023. “A temperamental issue of a spouse cannot be equated with the…

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Calling a woman “stupid” and “useless” cannot qualify as an offence of cruelty or criminal intimidation, the Supreme Court has said while quashing a dowry death case against a man whose wife died by suicide in Toronto, Canada, in 2023. “A temperamental issue of a spouse cannot be equated with the…

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Calling wife ‘stupid’ and ‘useless’ not cruelty: Supreme Court quashes dowry death case

Calling a woman “stupid” and “useless” cannot qualify as an offence of cruelty or criminal intimidation, the Supreme Court has said while quashing a dowry death case against a man whose wife died by suicide in Toronto, Canada, in 2023. “A temperamental issue of a spouse cannot be equated with the…

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