Section 498A: Supreme Court sets aside bail condition which required husband to pay ₹9 lakh interim compensation

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti said that the High Court was not justified in imposing the condition on the husband to pay ₹9 lakh to his estranged wife as ad-interim compensation.

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The Supreme Court recently set aside an anticipatory bail condition prescribed by the Jharkhand High Court which required a husband (appellant) booked for cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to pay ₹9 lakh to his estranged wife as ad-interim compensation [Rohit Jaiswal vs State of Jharkhand and anr].

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