Did a 31-year-old woman die by suicide because of harassment by her husband and in-laws? Why did her family refuse to take the body even four days after her death? MADHYA PRADESH: A Bhopal court has granted interim bail to a retired judge in the suicide case of her daughter-in-law, while the woman’s family continues…
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…
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…
Can a husband or father use habeas corpus petitions to bring back a woman to the family home? The Karnataka High Court has now made its stand clear. The Court dismissed two separate petitions and imposed ₹25,000 costs on each petitioner, calling the cases an “abuse of process” and warning against misuse of courts in…
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