The Delhi Excessive Court docket has mentioned that the unnatural loss of life of a younger married girl calls for immediate and diligent police investigation, expressing displeasure over an eight-month delay within the registration of an FIR by Delhi Police in a dowry loss of life case.
In a judgment delivered on June 1 on an anticipatory bail plea filed by the accused, Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma made the remark whereas denying reduction to the husband and in-laws within the case involving the loss of life of a 25-year-old girl inside six months of her marriage.
The choose remarked that the registration of the FIR within the case “took extra time than all the length of her marriage” and termed it an “unlucky actuality” that the deceased’s father was made to “run from pillar to submit” earlier than the FIR was registered based mostly on a judicial order.
Within the case, the husband knowledgeable the deceased’s father on July 2, 2025, that his daughter had been hospitalised after she fell from the steps. Nonetheless, upon reaching the hospital, the daddy suspected foul play.
The courtroom information state that the lady died by suicide. She succumbed on July 3, 2025, whereas the FIR was registered solely on February 13, 2026, following the instructions of a magisterial courtroom.
“One more case of a younger girl having misplaced her life inside six months of marriage. On this Court docket’s view, as soon as the deceased’s mother and father had raised suspicion in opposition to her husband and in-laws, the matter required a immediate and efficient response from the investigating company,” the courtroom noticed.
“This courtroom hopes that, in future, functions searching for instructions for registration of FIRs regarding the unnatural loss of life of a younger girl inside a brief interval of marriage, significantly the place allegations of dowry-related harassment are raised and the police fail to register an FIR, shall be taken up with better urgency by courts and be listed on shorter dates in order that the difficulty of registration of FIR and graduation of investigation isn’t left unresolved for months,” it added.
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Revealed – June 04, 2026 01:01 am IST
