The Rajasthan High Court upheld a 22-year-old Sessions Court ruling stating that a sister-in-law inviting her brother’s wife to her home and arguing with her does not amount to dowry-related cruelty. Justice Arun Monga was hearing a petition challeng...
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The Centre said that it is not as if a woman’s consent is obliterated by marriage, but only that consent violations within marriage would not attract rape law; there are other remedies. The Union government filed an affidavit in the Supreme Cou...
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In a significant ruling, the Punjab and Haryana High Court clarified that the maintenance provision under Section 125 CrPC should not be exploited by able-bodied wives who willingly choose not to seek employment. Justice Nidhi Gupta made this observa...
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court has established an important precedent by ruling that social media evidence can be considered in assessing adultery claims during interim maintenance proceedings. Justice Sumeet Goel stated that family courts are emp...
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The High Court upheld a family court’s decision to dismiss a woman’s plea for interim or final maintenance from her husband. The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently emphasized that the maintenance provision under Section 125 of the Criminal ...
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Single-judge Justice Manish Pitale made the observation while granting anticipatory bail to a man arrested by the Pune police in a rape case. On Thursday, the Bombay High Court declared that a married woman cannot claim that she was deceived into con...
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The Madras High Court recently granted a divorce to the husband, ruling that a wife’s threats to commit suicide constitute cruelty. Justice S. Srimathy noted that within just 8 months of marriage, the husband had written letters to his mother d...
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The Supreme Court reiterated that there is no limitation on quashing criminal proceedings even after a charge sheet has been filed. A bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and Pankaj Mithal made this observation while quashing a domestic cruelty cas...
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“For the act of cruelty committed, once arrest of parents of a spouse is caused on false allegations or allegations found to be false during a criminal trial, no further or strict proof of cruelty may be prescribed or applied by Courts.” Allahabad Hi...
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On Monday, September 23, the Bombay High Court overturned the conviction of a husband found guilty of abetting his wife’s suicide through torture, asserting that Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) does not encompass every case of haras...
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