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A bench led by Justice Vinay Joshi ordered an investigating officer to consider the evidence produced by the accused booked in case under Sections 498A and 306 of the IPC after his wife died by suicide. In a recent case, Nikhil Ashokrao Waghmare vs S...

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has rendered its consent to the transfer of a matrimonial case initiated by the husband from one jurisdictional district court to another. The primary motivation for this transfer petition is to preclude the prospect of ...

The Delhi High Court has unequivocally affirmed that the exclusive jurisdiction to grant a divorce on the grounds of irretrievable breakdown of a marriage is vested in the Supreme Court, as delineated by Article 142 of the Indian Constitution. In a p...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has articulated the overarching objective of the law, extending beyond punitive measures to encompass the preservation of societal peace, tranquility, and concord. The Court has underscored the paramount importance of co...

Justice Shampa Sarkar made the observation while dealing with a husband’s plea challenging at least four orders passed ex-parte and in favour of his estranged wife in a matrimonial suit. The Calcutta High Court has recently observed issues conc...

The Court stressed that refusal to grant divorce would force parties to suffer further and would amount to “law-induced mental cruelty.” In a recent legal ruling, a Delhi court has advocated the compulsory inclusion of prenuptial agreemen...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, in reliance upon the mutual compromise between the matrimonial partners, invoked its jurisdiction under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to extinguish the pending criminal case against the husband. “...

Section 112 of the Evidence Act underscores the principle that children born within the confines of a legally recognized marriage are deemed legitimate per se and it ensures that no unwarranted assumptions of impropriety or moral transgressions are m...

In a notable legal development, a Delhi Court issued a decree of mutual divorce pursuant to Section 13B of the Hindu Marriage Act, despite the wife’s protracted and resolute opposition to her husband’s divorce petition over the course of ...

“The right of the petitioners to marry a person of their own choice is indelible and protected under the Constitution, which cannot be diluted in any manner whatsoever,” the court said. In a recent legal pronouncement, the Delhi High Cour...