Practical legal writing on 498A, matrimonial disputes, criminal allegations, maintenance, custody and Indian court procedure.
A husband was found dead with a snake on his bed, but was a snakebite really the cause of his death? The Meerut Court has convicted his wife and her lover after medical evidence exposed a different cause of death.
Were serious criminal charges built only on inconsistent statements and weak electronic evidence? The Bengaluru Court said conviction cannot happen without clear proof, medical support and authentic digital evidence. BENGALURU: The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Bengaluru, presided over by Judge Girish Chatni, acquitted a man accused under Sections 498A, 377 and 201 IPC along…
Can Personal Liberty Override Marriage Laws Fixed By Parliament? The Allahabad High Court held that Article 21 cannot be invoked to defeat statutory restrictions governing marriageable age under Indian law. PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad High Court refused to grant protection to a live-in couple after observing that the male partner was only 19 years old and…
Can a man’s entire life be destroyed by a rape FIR even after marriage was legally registered? The Rajasthan High Court says No, rape case cannot be made out when the marriage was legal, consensual, and voluntarily entered by a major woman. JAIPUR: The Rajasthan High Court quashed an FIR registered under Sections 376, 384,…
NCRB data shows men form nearly three-fourths of suicide deaths in India. Here is the legal, social and family-court reality behind India’s male suicide crisis. NEW DELHI: India’s suicide crisis has a gender which is rarely discussed honestly. NCRB data shows that men, especially married and working-age men, are dying by suicide in alarming numbers […]
Can an entire family be dragged into a dowry harassment case without clear proof of active involvement? Allahabad High Court held that vague and omnibus allegations are not enough to prosecute family members under Section 498A IPC. PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad High Court, through Justice Tej Pratap Tiwari, has held that merely naming the husband’s relatives…
Can selling a matrimonial house become a dowry harassment case under Section 498A IPC? The Himachal Pradesh High Court has now answered this important question. SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh High Court has ruled that merely selling a matrimonial house cannot automatically be treated as dowry harassment under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code. The…
Can a husband be burdened with huge maintenance merely because he could not produce salary documents? The Gauhati High Court says No, holding that the wife failed to prove the husband’s alleged high income and maintenance annot be fixed on assumptions or adverse inference alone. GAUHATI: The Gauhati High Court recently passed an important judgment…
Section 41A CrPC, now Section 35(3) BNSS, protects accused persons from automatic arrest in offences punishable up to 7 years. Know the law, Supreme Court rulings, and men’s rights safeguards. NEW DELHI: Section 41A of the CrPC was one of the most important protections against automatic arrest in India. After the new criminal laws came […]
The Allahabad High Court directed the father to hand over custody of the child to the mother, but still protected his visitation rights twice every month to preserve the father-child bond. Can a father’s emotional bond with his child survive after losing custody? PRAYAGRAJ: In a child custody case, Justice Sandeep Jain of the Allahabad…
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