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Petty Quarrels Do Not Amount To Cruelty U/S 498A IPC: Bombay HC
Ramesh Sitaldas Dalal vs Maharashtra the exercise of its criminal appellate jurisdiction has quashed an FIR that was lodged against an elderly couple accused of harassing the estranged wife of...Hits: 8343 -
Muslim Wife Can't Be Denied Maintenance When Factum Of Divorce Not Properly Established: J&K&L HC
Zahoor Ahmad Dar Vs Jameela Bano while speaking out most vocally in favour of legal rights of Muslim wife has unequivocally ordered a Muslim man to maintain his wife till the factum of divorce, as...Hits: 9270 -
Pankaj Mehta vs Madhya Pradesh quashed a criminal case against a husband by following the reasoning that a compromise has already been reached between the concerned spouses and it was clearly...Hits: 9345
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police in cases of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) culminating in huge mental torture, financial torture, physical torture of being compelled to spend a long time in jail without doing...Hits: 7185
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Wife Living In Adultery Can’t Claim Maintenance From Her Husband: Karnataka HC
S vs T that a wife cannot claim maintenance from her husband under Section 12 of the Domestic Violence Act when she is in an adulterous relationship with another person.Hits: 19046 -
Ravishankar Shrivas v. Sarita Sen that if a wife insists to stay with husband at his posting place, it cannot be said to be cruelty upon her.Hits: 9266
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Family Courts Cannot Grant Divorce On Ground Of Breakdown Of Marriage: Delhi HC
Family Courts cannot grant divorce on the ground of there being an irretrievable breakdown of marriage.Hits: 8548 -
Smt.Roopa Rani vs Kamal Narayan Soni that the Trial Court and High Court should avoid adopting a hyper-technical and pedantic approach when assessing a divorce decree.Hits: 7518
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Day To Day Bickering Between Husband And Wife Is Not Cruelty U/S 498A IPC: Calcutta HC
Ranjan Das v/s West Bengal that a day to day bickering between a husband and a wife does not amount to cruelty under Section 498A IPC.Hits: 8285 -
Women Nowadays File Package Of 5 Cases Against Husband, In-Laws : MP HC
Swapan Kumar Das vs West Bengal that: The legislature has enacted the provision of Section 498A to strike out the dowry menace from the society.Hits: 6385 -
Calcutta HC Issues Guidelines For Arrest In Cruelty Cases Lodged By Wife Under Section 498A Of IPC
Swapan Kumar Das vs West Bengal that: The legislature has enacted the provision of Section 498A to strike out the dowry menace from the society.Hits: 17198 -
Women Have Unleashed “Legal Terrorism” By Misusing Section 498A IPC: Calcutta HC
Swapan Kumar Das vs West Bengal that: The legislature has enacted the provision of Section 498A to strike out the dowry menace from the society.Hits: 10010 -
Abida Begum vs Mohd Ismail that non-disclosure of assets or suppression of the assets of the candidate, or his or her spouse and dependent members would certainly amount to corrupt practice...Hits: 10175
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apart from the aforesaid disclosure statement, there is nothing to connect the accused persons with the commission of the offencesHits: 13777
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Rohit Dinanath Ray vs Gujaratacquitted the accused in a case of false promise to marry under Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The case was lodged with Gujarat University police station...Hits: 9915
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Section 498A IPC Being Rampantly Misused To Harass Family Members: Gujarat HC
Jyantilal Vadilal Shah vs Gujarat that was lodged against an 86-year-old woman for cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), while noting the rampant misuse of the provision to...Hits: 9171 -
Prajith R vs XXX has quashed the FIR lodged against a man by a married woman, complaining that she was cheated by the man as he failed to keep his promise of marriage to her.Hits: 8681
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No Wife Can Be Forced To Live In A Matrimonial Home With Husband Keeping Another Lady : HP HC
Nain Sukh Vs Seema Devi that no wife can be forced to live in matrimonial home with husband keeping another lady with him.Hits: 7933 -
Matrimonial Disputes: Delhi HC Lays Down Guidelines For Drafting Mediated Settlement Agreements
Chhatter Pal v. State comprehensive guidelines for drafting a mediated settlement agreement in matrimonial disputes and said that there is an urgent need of having settlement agreements in Hindi.Hits: 8681 -
Court also imposed a heavy cost of Rs. 25,000/- on the wife who is the petitioner for misleading the court and suppressing the material facts pertainingHits: 6177
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Wife Failed To Make Out Case Of Inconvenience Or Hardship: MP HC Rejects Transfer Petition
Sunaina Vishwakarma v. Vijay Kumar Vishwakarma that the wife has failed to make out a case of inconvenience or hardship.Hits: 6891 -
Shilpa Sailesh vs Varun Sreenivasan that it can invoke the special powers under Article 142 of the Constitution of India to waive the waiting period of 6 to 8 months prescribed for seeking divorce...Hits: 7868
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Indian Court Can Entertain Complaint Against Domestic Violence Committed Abroad: Bombay HC
a Judicial Magistrate can take cognizance of domestic violence committed in foreign soil under the Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (DV Act).Hits: 5605 -
Mansi Bhavin Dharani v. Bhavin Jagdish Dharani that a family court cannot pass a divorce decree on admission assuming that the marriage is dissolved in the hearts and minds of the parties when the...Hits: 6205
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Sameer Amrut Kondekar vs Maharashtra that when two people invest in a relationship, one of them cannot be blamed merely because the other alleged rape after things went south and the relationship...Hits: 7794
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Rabindra Kumar Mishra vs Odisha that an illicit extra-marital partner of husband cannot be prosecuted under the Domestic Violence Act by wife merely because she lived in the house of the couple.Hits: 6299
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Smt Kavitha M vs Sri Raghu Magistrate Courts for disposal of applications being made by an aggrieved person under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, within 60 days from the...Hits: 5592
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Shri Mudassir s/o Yousuf Khan Vs. Shirin w/o Mudasir Khan that a husband is liable to pay the maintenance to the estranged wife even if he has made attempts to cohabit with her.Hits: 6890
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ABC v. State of Haryana allegation of commission of rape on the pretext of marriage loses significance if the woman continues to be in a sexual relationship with the man even after his marriage...Hits: 6116
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No One Can Be Expected To Live With Constant Abuse Hurled Upon Him: Delhi HC
Deepti Bhardwaj vs Rajeev Bhardwaj has dismissed a woman’s plea challenging the decree of divorce granted to her husband on the grounds of cruelty.Hits: 5333
