Summary:
A Man and his mother have been booked for allegedly demanding dowry from his fiancee’s family. Following this, the man and his mother was booked under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC and Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. Later, when we went to meet them in at their residence, the groom’s mother demanded Rs 5 lakh in cash. AdvertisingThe police said that the fiancee’s family gave the accused Rs 5 lakh in cash after the engagement in mid-2018. But when the 25-year-old woman’s family refused to pay for a bike worth Rs 3 lakh, the man called off the wedding in the last week of December, 2018..