Can a Family Court rely on evidence that would ordinarily be inadmissible under the Evidence Act? The Kerala High Court says Section 14 gives Family Courts wider powers, but such…
Precedent analyses on Section 498A IPC, Section 125 CrPC & BNSS safeguards
A wife and her lover brutally murdered her husband and staged a snakebite to cover up the crime! How did the postmortem report and phone records expose their deadly conspiracy?…
Can a Family Court rely on evidence that would ordinarily be inadmissible under the Evidence Act? The Kerala High Court says Section 14 gives Family Courts wider powers, but such…
Can a serious POCSO case against a father continue when the medical material relied upon does not support the allegation? The Karnataka High Court examined the timing of the…
Can a consensual relationship between two engaged adults become rape simply because their engagement later breaks down? The Rajasthan High Court has quashed the rape case against…
Can the same woman’s testimony be rejected for kidnapping but accepted to convict a man of rape? The Supreme Court acquitted a man after finding serious contradictions in the…
Can a long consensual relationship between two married adults later support a rape prosecution based on an alleged promise of marriage? The Allahabad High Court examined the…
Can a wife keep the husband’s entire family in a domestic violence case without stating what each relative actually did? A Faridabad court has discharged three in-laws after…
Can a consensual relationship between two adults turn into a rape prosecution after it breaks down, especially when Section 376 IPC was not even in the original FIR? The Supreme…
A husband suffering from blood cancer was required to travel around 370 km to contest the maintenance proceedings filed by his wife and children. Why did the Madras High Court…
Can in-laws face Domestic Violence Act proceedings merely because they allegedly supported the husband? The Karnataka High Court has drawn a clear line between specific acts of…
