CrPC 198A — Prosecution of offences under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

[198A.  Prosecution  of  offences  under  section  498A  of  the  Indian  Penal  Code.—No  Court  shall
take  cognizance  of  an  offence  punishable  under  section  498A  of  the  Indian  Penal  Code  (45  of  1860)
except  upon  a  police  report  of  facts  which  constitute  such  offence  or  upon  a  complaint  made  by    the
person  aggrieved  by  the offence or by her father, mother, brother, sister or by her father’s or mother’s
brother or sister or, with the leave of the Court, by any other person related to her by blood, marriage or adoption.]

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