Kerala High Court: Wife’s jewelry kept as collateral without her consent is a crime, court sentences husband

High Court of Kerala: The Kerala High Court has considered keeping wife’s jewelry as collateral without her consent as a crime and sentenced the husband.

The Kerala High Court has considered keeping the wife’s jewelry as collateral without her consent as a crime and sentenced the husband. Justice A. Badaruddin said that all elements of criminal breach of trust (IPC Section 406) have been proved in this case.

Court Sentences

The Kerala High Court has upheld the sentence of six months imprisonment and a fine of five lakh rupees to the accused husband. In this case, the appellant-husband had received jewelry from his wife, which she had received from her mother, and had kept it in a locker. Instead of keeping the jewelry in the locker, the husband mortgaged it to a gold loan company without his wife’s consent and took a loan. The husband had challenged the sentence of six months imprisonment and a fine of five lakh rupees imposed by the Sessions Court in the High Court.