"How can we allow such a cruel man to enter court at all?!"; Supreme Court lashes out at dowry assault convict

NEW DELHI: Assaulted wife daily for dowry. Made her remove her uterus. Got married again. Doing all this after worshipping Laxmi and Saraswati whole day. How can we allow such a cruel man to enter court at all?!

Yogeshwar Sao, the accused in the dowry harassment case from Jharkhand, was severely scolded by the Supreme Court. A bench of Justices Suryakant and N Kotiswar Singh was considering his plea to cancel the lower court sentence.

The court observed that the accused has no thought for his daughters. "If he says he will transfer the agricultural land to his daughters, then we will pass some favourable order," the court said. Time has been given to inform his decision.

The trial court sentenced Yogeshwar Sao to two-and-a-half years in prison in 2015 on the complaint of his wife that he was constantly torturing her for a dowry of Rs 50,000. He spent 11 months in jail. Meanwhile, the Jharkhand High Court froze his sentence. The sentence was reduced to one and a half years and a fine of one lakh was imposed. Yogeshwar Sao approached the Supreme Court against this.