HC after woman alleges being bitten by sister-in-law

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HC after woman alleges being bitten by sister-in-law



MUMBAI: Human teeth cannot be considered as a dangerous weapon which would cause serious harm, the Bombay High Court said quashing an FIR filed on a woman’s complaint against her in-laws, wherein she alleged her sister-in-law bit her.The complainant’s medical certificates show there was only simple hurt caused by teeth marks, Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Sanjay Deshmukh of the HC’s Aurangabad bench said in the order on April 4.As per the FIR lodged in April 2020 on the woman’s complaint, during a scuffle, one of her sisters-in-law bit her, thus causing her harm with a dangerous weapon.The accused were booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code for causing harm with dangerous weapons, hurting someone and causing injury.



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