Debolina Sarkar Ghosh v. State of West Bengal and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Calcutta High Court criminal revision, CRR 3982 of 2023, Debolina Sarkar (Ghosh) v. State of West Bengal, Shampa Dutt (Paul), J., judgment dated 09.01.2025 (hearing concluded 20.12.2024). Subject: prayer for return of articles seized in G.R. Case No. 4836 of 2022 / Chatterjeehat P.S. Case No. 162 of 2022 dated 25.08.2022 under Sections 498A/406 IPC and Sections 3 & 4 of the D.P. Act; Court recorded from the case diary that the ‘streedhan’ articles had been returned to the de facto complainant and disposed of the revision as infructuous; interim order, if any, vacated; judgment sent to trial court for compliance. Keywords: return of seized articles, streedhan/stridhan, dowry articles, Section 498A IPC, Section 406 IPC, Dowry Prohibition Act Sections 3 and 4, infructuous, vacation of interim orders, Chatterjeehat Police Station.
What did the court decide?
From the materials in the case diary, the ‘streedhan’ articles had already been returned to the de facto complainant, and as such the present revisional application had become infructuous.