A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti said that the High Court was not justified in imposing the condition on the husband to pay ₹9 lakh to his estranged wife as ad-interim compensation. The Supreme Court has recently invalidated a condition for anticipatory bail, as imposed by the Jharkhand High Court. This condition …
The Jalpaiguri bench of the Calcutta High Court recently ruled that the act of bickering between a married couple regularly would not fall under the ambit of cruelty as defined under Section 498A of the Indian Penal (IPC). Single-judge Justice Sugato Majumdar, therefore, quashed the conviction under Section 498A of IPC of a man charged …
Recently, the High Court of Orissa quashed a cruelty case under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that was originated against a woman by her brother’s wife. Justice G Satapathy quashed the proceedings against the sister-in-law and stated that offence of cruelty to wife under 498A is often being misused against parents-in-laws to …
Section 498A often used as a tool to Pressurize husband’s family Read More »
Nowadays, women and their families have started making vague allegations against every member of the husband’s family, implicating everybody under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, Bombay high court observed last week. “Nowadays, it has become a tendency to make vague and omnibus allegations against every member of the family of the husband, implicating …
Section 498-A being misused to implicate husband’s entire family: Bombay High Court Read More »
The Bombay High Court while quashing an FIR against in-laws of woman who alleged harassment at their hands, observed that nowadays, it has become a tendency to make vague and omnibus allegations, against every member of the family of the husband, implicating everybody under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code. Division bench of Justice …
