Domestic Violence Case Against Husband’s Sisters Over Alleged Dowry Demand Instigation Quashed as They ‘Lived Separately’: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has quashed domestic violence proceedings against two sisters-in-law who were accused of instigating their brother to demand dowry from his wife. Justice A. Y. Kogje observed that the allegations against the two women were general in nature and that they were married much before the complainant and were living separately. In these circumstances, the Court found that the allegations of mental and physical torture against them…