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X is entrusted with his Hindu wife’s ornaments, money and clothes as her separate stridhan property. He…

Section 316(1) covers dishonest conversion of entrusted property, so the offence is "Criminal breach of trust". In Pratibha Rani v Suraj Kumar (1985), applying IPC sections…

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X is entrusted with his Hindu wife’s ornaments, money and clothes as her separate stridhan property. He turns her out, dishonestly converts that entrusted property to his own use and refuses her demands for its return. Which offence specifically addresses the proved entrustment and dishonest conversion?

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Section 316(1) covers dishonest conversion of entrusted property, so the offence is "Criminal breach of trust". In Pratibha Rani v Suraj Kumar (1985), applying IPC sections 405–406, the majority rejected marital immunity for dishonest misappropriation of a wife's stridhan; marriage does not turn her separate property into the husband's, though entrustment and dishonesty must be proved.

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