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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: 9632
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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: 7447
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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: 19915 -
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: 9554
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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: 8902 -
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: 7903
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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: 8668 -
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: 6903 -
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: 17387 -
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: 10445 -
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: 10424
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apart from the aforesaid disclosure statement, there is nothing to connect the accused persons with the commission of the offencesHits: 13982
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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: 10272
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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: 9354 -
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: 9051
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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: 8370 -
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: 8963 -
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: 6377
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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: 7143 -
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: 8273
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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: 6240 -
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: 6576
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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: 8472
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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: 6875
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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: 5905
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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: 7258
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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: 6302
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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: 5575 -
Sunil Podar vs The National Trust For Welfare Of Person With Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation And Multiple Disabilities that a foreign national cannot claim a vested or constitutional...Hits: 6135
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Shashikala Kishan Yewale vs Maharashtra that was pronounced as recently as on January 18, 2023 made it absolutely clear that it couldn’t be party to a widow being possibly evicted from her lawfully...Hits: 7374
