{"id":259905,"date":"2022-01-12T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=259905"},"modified":"2022-01-14T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T05:55:28","slug":"dowry-death-woman-meting-out-cruelty-to-another-woman-deserves-no-leniency-mother-in-law-must-protect-daughter-in-law-not-harass-her-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/01\/12\/dowry-death-woman-meting-out-cruelty-to-another-woman-deserves-no-leniency-mother-in-law-must-protect-daughter-in-law-not-harass-her-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dowry Death| Woman meting out cruelty to another woman deserves no leniency. Mother-in-law must protect daughter-in-law, not harass her: SC\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong>: In a case where a woman committed suicide in her matrimonial home after being subjected to cruelty at the hands of her husband, mother-in-law, father-in-law and sister-in-law for want of jewels, the bench of <strong>MR Shah*<\/strong> and BV Nagarathna, JJ observed that when an offence has been committed by a woman by meting out cruelty to another woman, i.e., the daughter-in-law, it becomes a more serious offence and hence, the mother-in-law did not deserve any leniency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court also observed that,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf a lady, i.e., the mother-in-law herein does not protect another lady, the other lady, i.e., daughter-in-law would become vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the present case, even the husband of the victim was staying abroad. The victim was staying all alone with her in-laws. In such circumstances, the Court noticed that it was the duty of the appellant, being the mother-in-law and her family to take care of her daughter-in-law, rather than harassing and\/or torturing and\/or meting out cruelty to her daughter-in-law regarding jewels or on other issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finding the mother-in-law to be guilty for the offence under Section 498A of IPC, the Court further noticed that just because the incident is of the year 2006 and a long time has passed in concluding the trial and\/or deciding the appeal by the High Court, is no ground not to impose the punishment and\/or to impose the sentence already undergone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, considering the fact that the incident is of the year 2006 and at present the appellant was 80 years old, as a mitigating circumstance, the Court reduced the sentence from one year R.I. to three months R.I.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Meera v. 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