State of A.P vs. M. Madhusudhan Rao on 24 October, 2008

  Marriage between the complainant and the respondent was solemnized on 24th November, 1993. On 22nd May, 1996, the complainant sent a report  to the Additional D.G.P., CID, Hyderabad, inter alia, alleging that at the time of her marriage with respondent on the insistence of respondent and his mother, her father gave her one house, Rs.60,000/- in cash, six tolas of gold and household articles worth Rs.50,000/-. Still after the marriage, her husband, working as Reserve Sub-Inspector (RSP) at Security Printing Press, was pressurising her to bring Rs.50,000/- more; he used to beat her up, scold, shout and threaten to kill her and on certain occasions he had also pressed her neck saying that he would kill her. It was also alleged that her mother-in-law her husband's brother Prabhakar and his wife and the second sister-in-law of her husband and her husband's last brother also used to help her husband in beating and harassing her. It was further alleged that one Mrs. Jalaja, working as Telephone Operator in the Reserve Bank of India, also used to threaten her by saying that her husband had married her and he did not like to stay with her. Branding her husband to be a gambler, drunkard and moving around with anti social elements, it was also alleged that about six months back her husband and his family members had made the first attempt to eliminate her by forcibly pouring poison into her throat and when her condition became serious, they informed her parents that she had taken poison. However, then she had not made any complaint to the police against her husband. But again on 19th April, 1996 at 11.00 a.m., her husband, his mother, his second brother's wife and her husband's third brother's wife forced her to consume poison and as a result thereof she was admitted in the nursing home at about 2.30 p.m. in an unconscious state.   

   The judgment passed by the High Court of Judicature, Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad, setting aside the conviction of the respondent-accused in Sessions from the charge of offence punishable under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and acquitting him, the State of Andhra Pradesh has preferred this appeal.

   The Court dismissed this appeal.