Chennai: The mother-in-law of a former DGP’s daughter has approached principal sessions court here seeking anticipatory bail in a case of alleged dowry harassment registered against her and her son.
The petitioner, Sudha Jain, 62, of Greater Kailash, New Delhi, has stated that they were innocent. On August 6, Neha Dogra, daughter of retired DGP, Tamil Nadu, S.K. Dogra, had registered a complaint in all women police station, Kilpauk, under sections 498 A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 506 (II) (criminal intimidation) IPC against her husband, Himanshu Jain, mother- in-law and her elder brother, Naresh Kumar Jain, an advocate, following a matrimonial dispute.
The wedding between Neha and Himanshu Jain was solemnised in Delhi on June 26, 2011. Himanshu, now a research scholar in Oxford University, United Kingdom, lived with her for about five months in Delhi and for three months in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sudha Jain claimed that none in her family sought for dissolution of marriage. However, S.K. Dogra initiated the talk in June 2015. And, no further action was taken. In turn, Dogra started harassing them and her family members.
Trouble started in August 2011, when Neha began quarrelling with Sudha Jain. In the complaint Dogra alleged that Sudha Jain, her son and her brother harassed Neha demanding dowry.
Sudha Jain further stated that Neha left for Chennai from Delhi in October
2011 taking all her belongings along with her. Again, Neha lived with her husband in Stockholm, Sweden, where he was working, in September 2012. Suddenly, she left the family in December 2012.
Meanwhile, a case was registered against the trio in Kilpauk police station alleging harassment of Neha. Sudha Jain stated they had returned all the articles and valuables of Neha to dowry prohibition officer in Chennai in September 2015. When she was planning to go to USA from New Delhi on November 5, 2015, immigration officials did not permit her to board the flight stating that Chennai police had issued look out notice.
Seeking anticipatory bail, she said they were innocent and police foisted a case against them. When the matter came up for hearing, the court directed the police to file reply and posted the matter for Friday for further hearing.
