A Pune district court granted divorce to a husband after concluding that he had proved mental cruelty by his wife. The husband alleged frequent quarrels, harassment, pressure to…
Precedent analyses on Section 498A IPC, Section 125 CrPC & BNSS safeguards
Can a physical assault automatically become abetment of suicide when the victim dies five days later? The Chhattisgarh High Court overturned the 10-year imprisonment of four…
A Pune district court granted divorce to a husband after concluding that he had proved mental cruelty by his wife. The husband alleged frequent quarrels, harassment, pressure to…
The Delhi High Court reduced the sentence of a man convicted in a 2009 rape and kidnapping case to the period of about two years and four months already undergone. The Court noted…
The Himachal Pradesh High Court reiterated that maintenance obligations cannot ordinarily be avoided merely by pleading unemployment or absence of income when the husband is…
The Kerala High Court held that passport authorities cannot insist on production of a court-issued divorce decree or judicial-separation order merely to delete a former spouse’s…
The Himachal Pradesh High Court granted bail to a man accused under Section 69 BNS after noting that both he and the complainant were already married to other persons and neither…
A Jajpur court in Odisha sentenced Mamata Kuanr to life imprisonment for murdering her husband, Atal Kuanr, following a family dispute in 2021. According to the prosecution, she…
The Bombay High Court restored a mutual-consent divorce decree after finding that the parties had entered into a settlement and the husband had paid the agreed ₹6.5 lakh amount.…
The Calcutta High Court quashed Section 498A IPC proceedings against the husband’s parents, finding that the allegations against them were general and lacked specific acts…
The Punjab & Haryana High Court suggested creating a national-level database to help law-enforcement agencies identify persons who repeatedly file sexual-offence complaints across…
