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Adv
Pradeep Nawani has shown us the way on how to go about nailing the
scum that infest the ranks of the Indian police and has also shown us
to how to nail the bitter half and her enablers under Dowry
Prohibition Act Section 3 (DP3).
NEW
DELHI: A Noida court has ordered police to book a woman and her
parents for giving dowry. The chief judicial magistrate (CJM) of
Noida ordered the police to register an FIR against Noida-based call
centre employee Natasha Juyal and her parents under section 3 of the
Dowry Prohibition Act (DPA) for giving dowry. The CJM also ordered
action against police officers who refused to register Natasha’s
husband Namit Juyal’s complaint.
Giving
or taking dowry is a criminal offence under Section 3 of the DPA with
imprisonment. This is a rare case where the section was evoked
against a woman and her family.
Namit’s
lawyer Pradeep Nawani argued that Natasha had not only accepted to
giving dowry, but also submitted a list of stridhan that was not as
per the DPA. Even her claim of huge wedding expense did not match her
father’s financial capacity.
According
to Nawani, Natasha filed a complaint of dowry harassment in Noida’s
sector-20 police station last year, saying Namit was given Rs10 lakh
as dowry in 2005.
The
Noida police arrested Namit and packed him off to Dasna jail in UP.
After getting bail, Namit sought information under RTI from the Noida
police, seeking to know on what basis he was arrested.
He
was horrified to hear that he was arrested on the basis of his wife’s
mere written complaint and verbal statement with no records to back
her allegations. He then asked police to register a complaint against
his wife and family for giving dowry.
On
refusal by the police, he approached court to get a complaint
registered against his wife and her parents. He also sought contempt
of court action against the police for failing to comply with a
supreme court order, stipulating that refusing to register police
complaint by a husband in a dowry case is tantamount to the contempt
of court.
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