| Details of Dowry Law Cases for the year 2007 (Source - NCRB) |
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2007 |
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| 1 |
No. of Person Arrested under (498A +304B)* |
215733 |
100% |
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| 2 |
Child- Under 18 Years |
457 |
0.21% |
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| 3 |
Senior Citizen-Above 60 Years |
6764 |
3% |
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| 4 |
Women |
40451 |
19% |
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| 5 |
No of Persons arrested under 304B* |
28193 |
13% |
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| 6 |
No of persons arrested under 498A |
187540 |
87% |
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| 7 |
No of persons chargesheet |
165040 |
77% |
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| 8 |
No of persons arrested but not chargesheeted |
8857 |
4% |
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| 9 |
Under investigation |
41836 |
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| 10 |
No of persons under trial * in 498A and 304B IPC |
750736 |
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| 11 |
No of persons who have completed the trial (498A + 304B) |
104745 |
49% |
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No of persons completed trial only in 304B |
16816 |
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No of persons who have completed trial only in 498A |
87929 |
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| 12 |
No of persons convicted under 498A and 304B |
18827 |
18% |
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| 13 |
No of persons convicted under only 304B |
5580 |
33% |
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| 14 |
No of persons convicted only in 498A** |
13247 |
15% |
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| 15 |
No of persons whose case acquitted / discharged only in 498A |
74682 |
85% |
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| 16 |
Only 498A case of living women court found guilty after trail ( 87-85)% |
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2% |
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| 17 |
No of persons whose cases have been compounded or withdrawn |
13739 |
6% |
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% of Person found not guilty vs Arrest in 498A on average |
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94% |
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*Total no of persons under arrest including those in previous year |
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** Person convicted under 304B are also convicted under 498A |
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hence, those convicted only in 498A is 12-13 |
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Hightlights : |
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1. 94% of the people arrested were found not guilty (pre & post trial). |
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2. 85% found not guilty after the completion of the trial - but these 85% were also arrested without any investigation. Maximum convection in 498A in case of 304B( 18827 trial), where the person allready spend more than 1 year Jail, but proved their innocence in 304B, but convected in 498A by defult to neturilise the Jail term. |
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| Source : |
http://ncrb.nic.in/cii2007/cii-2007/table12.htm |
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