India, June 3 -- A city court has acquitted a man and his brother, giving them the "benefit of doubt" in the death of his wife at his home in Greater Noida's Beta-2 area on April 4, 2018 - four years after her marriage.

Citing the Supreme Court's 2018 judgment in Major Singh & Others vs State of Punjab, the court said the prosecution must prove the woman was subjected to cruelty or harassment linked to dowry before her death. "There must be a link between the death of the deceased and the demand for dowry and the alleged cruelty," it observed.

In this case, the court said, the prosecution failed to establish any dowry demand or cruelty before her death.

The victim's father had filed an FIR at Beta-2 police station on April 8, 2018, und...