Elderly parents can cancel gift deeds executed in favour of their children if the children fail to maintain the parents even if there is no maintenance condition mentioned in the deed, the Court held. The Madras High Court has ruled that senior citiz...
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The Court added that if despite objection, the husband or wife continues with such activity, then it certainly will cause mental cruelty. The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed a woman’s appeal challenging the dissolution of her marriage, ruli...
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The Delhi High Court was considering a Petition against an order of the Family Court whereby the Petitioner’s right to file reply/written statement was closed and a subsequent application for the recall of the said order was also dismissed. The Delhi...
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The Bench criticized the husband, a doctor, for disregarding his wife and children’s well-being and failing to comply with court orders to pay maintenance. The Bombay High Court recently sentenced a doctor to six months in civil prison for repe...
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Forcing her to live with a person who is neither educated nor eager to improve himself certainly amounts to mental cruelty, it ruled. The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday held that forcing a wife to abandon her studies amounts to mental cruelty,...
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Forcing her to live with a person who is neither educated nor eager to improve himself certainly amounts to mental cruelty, it ruled. The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled on Thursday that forcing a wife to abandon her studies amounts to mental cruelty...
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The criminal appeal before the Apex Court was directed against the impugned judgment of acquittal passed by the Himachal Pradesh High Court in an alleged case of rape. The Supreme Court upheld the Himachal Pradesh High Court’s decision to acqui...
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The Court observed that the mechanism for registration of marriages in Delhi was inadequate and not in conformity with a 2006 judgment of the Supreme Court. The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought responses from the Central and Delhi governments reg...
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The Court was hearing an appeal against a single judge order that had denied a couple’s request for police protection, citing doubts about their marriage. The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh recently ruled that when two individuals l...
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The Court said that by mechanically granting bail in such cases, courts risk normalising a crime that continues to claim numerous innocent lives. On Monday, the Supreme Court stressed that courts must carefully assess the circumstances before grantin...
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