According to police officials, Cricketer Prithvi Shaw was reportedly assaulted and his vehicle was damaged with a baseball bat outside a high-end hotel in Santacruz, Mumbai, after he had an argument with a female social media influencer and her male companion. The altercation began after the player declined to take photos with the influencer. On …
New Delhi: Judges should be addressed in courts in a respectful and dignified manner and it is not compulsory to call them \”my lord\”, \”your lordship\” or \”your honour\”, the Supreme Court today said. \”When did we say it is compulsory. You can only call us in a dignified manner,\” a bench comprising justices H L …
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\”Shared household would not per se be complete defence to suit for possession filed by owner of property.\” In the facts of a case for possession of property, the Delhi High Court has observed that the mother in law being the owner of the property is not barred from claiming eviction against her daughter in …
Emphasizing the duty of the Court to encourage genuine settlement of matrimonial disputes, the Supreme Court set aside conviction of a man under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (\’IPC\’). In this case, the husband was convicted under Section 498-A IPC and was sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment of three years. Sessions Judge …
Since the decriminalisation of adultery in 2018, its impact has been observed in both urban and Tier II, III cities in India. A recent case from Rohtak in Haryana involved a man catching his wife in the act with her lover in a hotel room. The subsequent events are indicative of women who show no …
The Aurangabad division of the Bombay High Court, in its ruling issued on January 07, 2023, nullified a charge of cruelty as outlined in Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against a female judicial official who had been brought before the court by her brother’s spouse. The division bench of Justices Anuja Prabhudessai …
On December 2022, a criminal complaint was filed in the jurisdiction of Mumbai, accusing three individuals of committing the offenses of gang rape, assault with a deadly weapon, and causing injury through the use of a cigarette. The alleged victim, a 42-year-old woman, claimed that the defendants had forcibly committed these acts against her. However, …
The Supreme court on Monday observed that no person’s bail shall be canceled merely on the grounds of any perceived notion against the accused person. The court contended that power to cancel bail of an accused person cannot be exercised merely on the grounds of his indiscipline, the court says that section 439(2) does not …
KOCHI: A spouse refusing to grant divorce on mutual consent in a failed marriage can be considered as cruelty, a division bench of Justice A Muhamed Mustaque held on February 4 after considering separate appeals filed by a couple. In the judgment, the court said, \”If one of the spouses is refusing to accord divorce …
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In a landmark decision, the Chhattisgarh High Court recently ruled that if a wife insists on separating her husband from his parents and threatens to implicate him in a false dowry demand case, she is committing mental cruelty. A division bench of Justices Goutam Bhaduri and NK Chandravanshi was hearing a petition filed by a …
