Three Acquitted in 1991 Dowry Death Case for Lack of Proof of Harassment Soon Before Death: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow Bench has acquitted three accused in a decades-old case concerning the death of Urmila, who was found dead in a well near her matrimonial home in Faizabad in September 1991. Justice Manoj Bajaj held that the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Urmila had been subjected to dowry-related cruelty or harassment soon before her death, an essential requirement for establishing a dowry-death offence.…
