An Araria court awarded the death penalty to 35-year-old Poonam Devi for poisoning and nearly beheading her minor daughter after the child witnessed her with another man. The judge said the crime âshakes the conscience of societyâ and falls into âthe rarest of the rare.â Mother Sentenced to Death for Killing Daughter: In a shockingâŚ
On November 4, 2025, the Bombay High Court ruled that a husband and his parents cannot be convicted of constitute cruelty under Section 498A solely based on the testimony of the wifeâs parents. They had claimed that their late daughter, Rekha, was unhappy in her marriage and frequently cried when visiting them due to allegedâŚ
The Supreme Court has ruled that courts cannot blindly assume a marriage is âirretrievably brokenâ just because the couple living separately. The Court set aside a Uttarakhand High Court divorce decree and sent the case back for a proper examination of evidence. NEW DELHI: In an important judgment, the Supreme Court has said that courtsâŚ
The Allahabad High Court denied protection to a woman and her partner who claim safety to be in a live-in relationship, noting that she was still legally married. The Court said it cannot support relationships that may amount to bigamy or crime under Indian law. Claim Safety for Illicit Relationship: The Allahabad High Court refusedâŚ
Justice Surya Kant of the Supreme Court of India called it an âuncomfortable truthâ that marriage has historically been misused to subjugate women. Speaking on family law trends, he said legal and social reforms are slowly turning marriage into a dignified partnership of equals, and reaffirmed that foreign divorce judgments obtained by fraud or againstâŚ
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