04-08-2009, 03:02 AM
<b>SC relief for NRI family in dowry case</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The verdict came on an appeal filed by Sundar Babu and his family against his former wife Sukanya.
<b>Babu said he went to the US in July 1999 and within seven months Sukanya filed cases against him and his family, including parents and maternal grandmother. She obtained a divorce in July 2001 and remarried a year later, but the case continued.</b>
<b>Babuâs family moved the HC for quashing of the FIR but did not get any relief. </b>
âAuthority of the court exists for advancement of justice... It would be an abuse of the process of the court to allow any action, which would result in injustice and prevent promotion of justice,â the court said.
Citing an earlier ruling, it said a criminal case can be quashed, if it is manifestly attended with malafide or âwhere the proceedings are instituted with an ulterior motives for wreaking vengeance on the accused and with a view to spite him due to private and personal grudgeâ. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Babu said he went to the US in July 1999 and within seven months Sukanya filed cases against him and his family, including parents and maternal grandmother. She obtained a divorce in July 2001 and remarried a year later, but the case continued.</b>
<b>Babuâs family moved the HC for quashing of the FIR but did not get any relief. </b>
âAuthority of the court exists for advancement of justice... It would be an abuse of the process of the court to allow any action, which would result in injustice and prevent promotion of justice,â the court said.
Citing an earlier ruling, it said a criminal case can be quashed, if it is manifestly attended with malafide or âwhere the proceedings are instituted with an ulterior motives for wreaking vengeance on the accused and with a view to spite him due to private and personal grudgeâ. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->