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Making 498a Compoundable or Compounding the Problems?
498A Apr 3, 2024 0

Making 498a Compoundable or Compounding the Problems?

MARZ BADTA GAYA JYUN JYUN DAWA KI Time and again, various High Courts and Supreme Court and Committees have advocated that 498a (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty: Proposed Section 84 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023) be made bailable and compoundable. Time and again, the government has made up its […]

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What is a Discharge Petition under Crpc 239?
Articles Apr 3, 2024 0

What is a Discharge Petition under Crpc 239?

Discharge in criminal cases and Quash are favorite topics of discussion in most of the Men’s Rights Group’s weekly meetings, discussions on web portals and even in WhatsApp groups. The same is buoyed by the partial discharges from 406 or other allied offences like 325, 313, etc. or even when some of the relatives are […]

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How to Defend False Charge of Sexual Harassment at Work Place
Articles Apr 3, 2024 0

How to Defend False Charge of Sexual Harassment at Work Place

False Sexual Harassment at Workplace charges have now become a routine. However, there is a lack of material available on how to defend oneself from such false claims. The situation for men is similar to when one facing false dowry harassment charges under 498A (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty: Proposed […]

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Rape Commentology
Articles Apr 2, 2024 0

Rape Commentology

Suddenly, the middle class got paranoid about the safety of their sisters, wives and daughters when ‘India’s Daughter’, re-re-provoked by interest in Rapes happening in India. Re-re-provoked? Oh just couple of months back it was Uber Rape Case and then few months back there were two bodies hanging in some village in Ballia duly raped […]

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Section 498a IPC | 498a Judgments | False Dowry Case | 498a Misuse
Articles Apr 1, 2024 0

Section 498a IPC | 498a Judgments | False Dowry Case | 498a Misuse

What is Section 498A ? IPC 498A is one of the sections of the Indian Penal Code inserted in the year 1986 to protect women from harassment on account of demand of Dowry. As per definition: The statute says that 498A. Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty.—Whoever, being the husband […]

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Divorce by Mutual Consent
Articles Apr 1, 2024 0

Divorce by Mutual Consent

What is Mutual Divorce? When both parties to the marriage want to end the marriage and reach an agreement to this effect and, upon satisfying specific other legal requirements, mutually present a petition for divorce in a court having territorial jurisdiction, it is called Divorce by Mutual Consent and is also colloquially called Mutual Divorce. […]

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Stridhan
Knowledge Center Apr 1, 2024 0

Stridhan

Recently, when, for some specific purposes, I was looking for the exhaustive definition of Stridhan and its distinction with Dowry, I found the material or definitions available on the net mostly wanting. In most places, it is mentioned that a property acquired by a woman before, at the time of marriage and later is Stridhan. […]

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Planning To Get Married Life – Watch Out for these
Articles Apr 1, 2024 0

Planning To Get Married Life – Watch Out for these

Are You Planning to get married? Then Read On A couple of days ago I came across a news article on this portal about a recent conference held in the Middle East on pre-marital screening for women, which got my immediate attention. Even though it was about medical screening for spinsters in order to avoid […]

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Void Marriage
Articles Apr 1, 2024 0

Void Marriage

When Marriage Void under Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, A marriage becomes void, if any of the conditions related to Section 5(1), 5(4), 5(5) of HMA is contravened. These conditions hereto are: Either party Has A Spouse Living At the Time Of The Marriage The Parties To the Marriage Fall within The Degrees Of Prohibited Relationship The […]

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