The Court has held that persons cannot be summoned by a trial court under Section 31 of the DV Act for a failure to pay maintenance ordered by the court under Section 20 of the Act. The Delhi High Court has expounded that the primary objective of mai...
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The Court passed the order on a plea challenging an order directing a husband to pay ₹5,000 as interim maintenance under the Domestic Violence Act to his wife. The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently opined that the disapproval of a wife’s petit...
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Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) noted that there was no evidence to support the wife’s claim that she was mercilessly beaten and also was tortured for dowry. In the matter of Suman Kumar Das vs State of West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court adjudicat...
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The appeal filed by the second wife of a deceased state employee, seeking entitlement to family pension subsequent to her husband’s demise, was declined by the Karnataka High Court. In dismissing her appeal upon noting that the deceased employe...
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The pronouncement from the Allahabad High Court unambiguously establishes that adjudications emanating from a Family Court concerning matters under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure are devoid of appellate jurisdiction before the High Cou...
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The Telangana High Court said the Family Court in Hyderabad can’t give a divorce decree for cruelty without clear complaints and enough proof. This decision came after a wife appealed against a divorce decree from the Family Court.Top of Form A...
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The Court noted that a traditional Hindu marriage is not a valid marriage without the completion of ‘Saptapadi’ and ‘Datta Homam.’ In a recent ruling, the Patna High Court nullified a marriage, citing the groom’s coercion at gunpoint and the om...
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The Court also noted that the provision for maintenance during the pendency of proceedings under the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) is gender neutral, meaning that both wife or husband can seek relief under it. In a session convened on Tuesday, the Delhi H...
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A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan took the view that in the interest of justice, courts should provide limited interim protection while considering the liberty of citizens, subject to certain conditions. In a recent adjudication, the...
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The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently said that a court can give more maintenance than what someone asks for in Section 125 Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) cases. This happened when a person, who was contesting a maintenance order in the Indore Bench...
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