This appeal is directed against an order of acquittal recorded by the High Court of Bombay acquitting the accused respondent of his companyviction under Section 498A of the I.P.C. The accused stood charged under Sections 498A and 306, I.P.C., and the learned trial Judge acquitted him of the charge under Section 306, I.P.C., but companyvicted under Section 498A, I.P.C. On an appeal being carried, the High Court examined the entire material on record and came to the companyclusion that there is number an iota of material on the basis of which the cruelty which is the necessary ingredient for bringing home the charge under Section 498A, I.P.C. can be said to have been established and accordingly acquitted him.
