Practical legal writing on 498A, matrimonial disputes, criminal allegations, maintenance, custody and Indian court procedure.
Can a wife’s repeated 498A and domestic violence proceedings against her husband amount to mental cruelty, even after the cases fail? The Chhattisgarh High Court examined the husband’s prolonged legal battle and ruled that cruelty has no gender, granting him divorce.
A Delhi court refused to preserve a wife’s call records, saying late-night calls alone cannot be used to question her character. But the ruling also raises a bigger question: when evidence disappears with time, how does a husband prove his defence? NEW DELHI: A Delhi Court has refused a husband’s request to preserve his wife’s…
Is 99.76% of dowry cases in India false? Read real NCRB 2024 data, Delhi RTI findings, Supreme Court judgments, Section 85 BNS, 498A misuse and the legal truth. NEW DELHI: India does not officially say that 99.76% dowry cases are false. But Delhi RTI data, NCRB 2024 numbers and repeated Supreme Court warnings show a […]
The case collapsed as the allegations were vague, witnesses contradicted each other, and no reliable evidence connected the accused with dowry-related cruelty before death. NEW DELHI: Additional Sessions Judge Yadvender Singh of a Delhi court has acquitted a husband, his brother and his mother in a 2016 dowry death case after holding that the prosecution…
Is every broken promise of marriage rape? Allahabad High Court made it clear that every breach of promise to marry cannot be treated as rape unless false intention existed from the very beginning. PRYAGRAJ: The Allahabad High Court, through Justice Vivek Kumar Singh, has quashed a rape case against a man after finding that the…
The Madras High Court has said couples alleging mental illness in matrimonial disputes must be protected as “X” and “Y,” shielding them from public stigma and social damage. But beneath the privacy angle lies a bigger question: when intimate allegations enter court, who really pays the lifelong reputational price? CHENNAI: The Madras High Court, through…
Can a husband be forced to face a full criminal trial when the same dowry and cruelty allegations have already failed against his parents? The Andhra Pradesh High Court said such a trial would only waste court time and put him through an unnecessary legal ordeal.
Can a wife’s remarriage during a delayed divorce appeal make the second marriage void? Kerala High Court answered this issue and also reopened the ₹20 lakh permanent alimony question. KOCHI: Can a remarriage during the pendency of a delay-condoned divorce appeal be treated as void? The Kerala High Court has answered this important question under…
Raja Raghuvanshi and Ketan Agarwal cases expose a chilling pattern where men allegedly trusted marriage, but police say the women they trusted plotted their deaths with lovers. NEW DELHI: If marriage was the problem, one refusal was enough. Why did two men allegedly have to die? Raja Raghuvanshi went on honeymoon after marriage. Ketan Agarwal […]
Can a mother’s custody still be called safe if the child is allegedly turned against his own father? A Pune Family Court has broken the usual assumption that only mothers are natural caregivers and granted interim custody of a 10-year-old boy to his father. MAHARASHTRA: A Pune Family Court granted interim custody of a 10-year-old…
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