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498A Overreach | Kitchen Fights Are Not a Crime, Jail Cannot Be Justified: Karnataka High Court Smashes False Case Against Husband
High Court Jan 17, 2026 0

498A Overreach | Kitchen Fights Are Not a Crime, Jail Cannot Be Justified: Karnataka High Court Smashes False Case Against Husband

The Karnataka High Court held that routine marital disagreements cannot be criminalised as cruelty under Section 498A IPC. The judgment quietly exposes how criminal law is often triggered first, facts examined later — at the cost of men’s liberty. Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court at Bengaluru has delivered a strong judgment protecting individuals from misuse…

Vaibhav Ojha Read
Wife Calls Husband Paaltoo Chooha, Beats Him Before Mother & Asks To Separate From Old Parents: Chhattisgarh High Court Upholds Divorce Over Mental Cruelty
High Court Jan 15, 2026 0

Wife Calls Husband Paaltoo Chooha, Beats Him Before Mother & Asks To Separate From Old Parents: Chhattisgarh High Court Upholds Divorce Over Mental Cruelty

The Chhattisgarh High Court confirmed divorce after finding that forcing a husband to leave his parents and humiliating him amounted to mental cruelty. Despite the wife being a salaried government teacher, the husband was directed to pay ₹5 lakh as permanent alimony. BILASPUR: The Chhattisgarh High Court has upheld a 2019 Family Court order granting…

Shonee Kapoor Read
Unheard Voices: Understanding Men’s Rights and Legal Inequality in India
Articles Oct 22, 2025 0

Unheard Voices: Understanding Men’s Rights and Legal Inequality in India

India speaks proudly of women’s empowerment but ignores the men who suffer in silence. With rising false accusations, biased family courts, and laws that presume men guilty, the balance of justice has tilted dangerously. True equality will only return when compassion, not gender, decides who deserves protection. INTRODUCTION: The Untold Story of Indian Men’s inequality […]

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Call Recordings as Evidence in Matrimonial Disputes
Articles Mar 26, 2024 0

Call Recordings as Evidence in Matrimonial Disputes

ADMISSIBILITY OF CALL RECORDINGS BEFORE COURT AS EVIDENCE IN MATRIMONIAL DISPUTES Over the period, more and more matters have come before the court wherein one or both of the parties to the dispute rely on electronic evidence such as phone recordings, screenshots of chats/texts, etc. However the focus of this article is merely phone recordings […]

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