Practical legal writing on 498A, matrimonial disputes, criminal allegations, maintenance, custody and Indian court procedure.
How could a husband be kept in a mental health facility for 42 days during a divorce dispute without the certification required by law? The Uttarakhand High Court examined the records and ordered his immediate release.
What is Domestic Violence as per the Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA, 2005)? As per law, any act, be it omission or commission or conduct against the woman by any other male or female relative living in a domestic relation, which harms, injures, harasses, threatens or endangers the aggrieved person, is Domestic Violence as per the […]
Pardon me for paraphrasing a well-known maxim- ‘rex non potest peccare’ or ‘the King can do no wrong’ to suit the context, but allow me to elaborate. ‘Sovereign immunity’ is a legal doctrine by which the King/ Crown/ President/ State cannot commit a legal wrong, i.e. they are immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution. The […]
Introduction Under the Hindu laws, cruelty is a ground of divorce for a wife or a husband, either of them can seek a divorce on this ground. Under Section 13(1)(iA) of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (Act), a petition can be filed by either the husband or the wife for seeking divorce on the ground of […]
Are You Planning To Settle Down In Your Life? Then Read On A few days ago, I found 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 to avoid problems […]
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it’s equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights Callie Khouri, a Syrian-American film and television screenwriter, producer, director and a Feminist A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves Gloria Steinem, a self-styled Feminist You […]
My complaint and Chargesheet do not contain particulars like the date and time of the incidents. Shall I file a Discharge? The law is very clear: CrPC 212 says that if the details of the time and date of the incident are not mentioned in the material on the Chargesheet, the court cannot meet the […]
Rape is an accusation that is hard to be proved, and even harder to be defended by the accused party. A rape allegation gives a disastrous turn to the life of the accused, excluding them socially. Rape is a menace, and many women do not speak about to incidence due to infamy. But point of […]
I find this one of the most challenging posts to write. Child custody battles amongst the warring couples impact the child the most. I have personally fought a bitter struggle for the custody of my minor child, and I can tell you from experience that no judgments, precedents, love, affection, or money matters when it comes […]
The dictionary defines dowry as money or property that a wife or wife’s family gives to her husband when the wife and husband marry in some cultures. Unlike what most people in India think, dowry has Babylonian origins. Dowry was regularly practised in Old Greece and the Roman Empire as well. In contrast, many scholars […]
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