(2023-3)211 PLR 308 , 2023 PLRonline 419673
JHARKHAND HIGH COURT AT RANCHI
Before: Justice Ambuj Nath.
RAM KRIPAL SINGH – Petitioner
Versus
STATE OF JHARKHAND and others – Respondents.
Cr. revision No. 191 of 2011, Cr. Revision No. 557 of 2012
Indian Penal Code, Section 498A ( ipc s. 498a ) – Cruelty – Non-providing of proper medical aid – When the informant wife was diagnosed with cancer, the husband refused to take care of her for providing her medical treatment, stating that her father had not given sufficient dowry – Non-providing of proper medical aid to ones wife to enforce the demand of dowry will come within the definition of cruelty as enunciated under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code.