Understanding the Real Difference Between Protection and Prosecution — Procedural Flow, Arrest Risk, Judicial Interpretation, and Defence Approach. NEW DELHI: Most people don’t understand the difference between the DV Act and 498A IPC until they are ...
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Section 498A IPC, now BNS Sections 85 and 86, punishes cruelty by husband or in-laws. Here is what Indian courts treat as real cruelty, what they reject, and why vague allegations still fail. NEW DELHI: A lot of people throw around the word “cruelty”...
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Scope of Supreme Court powers under Article 142 to grant divorce beyond rigid statutory requirements. NEW DELHI: Not every marriage ends with a clear legal ground like cruelty or adultery. Many marriages simply stop functioning. Two people live separ...
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Thousands of NRIs walk out of UK courts thinking it’s over, only to face fresh battles in India. The real law doesn’t end your marriage where you think it does, it starts testing it. NEW DELHI: Most Indian NRIs approach divorce in the UK with a strai...
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Many people believe that once a marital dispute starts, the husband has no protection under Indian law. The truth is very different, and knowing it can completely change how a case unfolds. The biggest myth being pushed in matrimonial litigation toda...
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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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Compelling a man to live separately from his old parents would amount to cruelty on the part of his wife and it may become a ground to seek divorce, the Kerala High Court has held.
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Marriage between two persons presupposes cohabitation on harmonious relationship arising out of mutual respect and understanding between the husband and the wife .
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The concept of cruelty as a ground for divorce has no particular legal definition under the laws of India and the same had been done keeping in view that the concept of cruelty cannot have a straight-jacket formula amounting to its dynamic nature and...
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