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The bench, while refusing to quash the FIR, said that the manner of ill-treatment was sadistic
The Bombay High Court has refused to quash a 498A case against a man, his father, and three sisters.
The division bench of the high court, comprising Justice AS Gadkari and Justice Neela Gokhale, was hearing a petition filed by the husband and his family members seeking to quash the FIR filed by the wife.
The wife alleged that the sisters moved to the same house and removed the house help. The sisters made the wife do all the domestic work.
She also claimed that she was made to video call to show that the house was cleaned and what she had cooked for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Subsequently, the husband abused her and refused to have conjugal relations. The sisters then demanded money from the wife and forced her to leave the house while retaining her jewelry.
The bench, while refusing to quash the FIR, said that the manner of ill-treatment was sadistic.
"The allegations against the sisters-in-law pertaining to compelling the Complainant to show them the house cleaned by her on what’s app video call appears to be a peculiar and a sadist manner of ill treatment. This is enough to cause apprehension In the mind of the Complainant that, there was danger to her life and limb at the hands of the Petitioners," the order reads.
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