CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973 (CrPC)

Section 198 A - Prosecution of offences under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code

No Court shall take cognizance of an Offence Punishable section 498A of the Indian Penal Code except upon a police report of facts which constitute such offence or Upon a complaint made by the person aggrieved by the offence or by her father, mother, brother, sister or by her father' s or mother' s brother or sister or, with the leave of the Court, by any other person related to her by blood, marriage or adoption.