Practical legal writing on 498A, matrimonial disputes, criminal allegations, maintenance, custody and Indian court procedure.
A husband died by suicide after his wife left the matrimonial home, filed an FIR and initiated maintenance proceedings, while his suicide note blamed her family. But can even an allegedly false matrimonial FIR make the wife’s family guilty of abetment when there was no instigation or intentional aid?
One of my favourite opening lines of a book, The Adventures of Griswald Gnome: A Fairy Tale for Children of all Ages, is – “A reformed deformer, searcher of research, a regrind grinder, one who once faltered, but reflated and did rejoin as a joiner. If I might presume, I’m going to lecture you. This […]
Passport Related Queries in Complex Cases Have a Legal Case and Worried About Your Passport? Read This First Many people find themselves confused and stressed when they have a legal case—like an FIR, criminal complaint, or court case—and need to apply for or renew their passport. You may be wondering: Can I still travel? Will […]
What is Section 406 IPC? What is Criminal Breach of Trust? One of the companions 498A (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty: Proposed Section 84 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023) complaint is Section 406 IPC. Though knowledge about 498A (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to […]
Rape laws in India have been amended yet again. Though the common understanding is that following the Public outrage on the Rape of minors in various parts of the country, only POSCO Act has been amended, that is further than the truth. The ordinance which has been promulgated has made amendments in provisions of S. 376 of IPC […]
The principles of agency do not apply to The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, referred to as SHWW Act hereafter, which means that SHWW Act doesn’t impose any statutory, criminal as well as civil, liability on the employer for the acts of sexual harassment by employees. As a rule, […]
For an ordinary non-legal person, which most of men are prior to filing of dowry related cases against them, Articles 15(3) is the answer to their most basic yet generally misguided question. Clause 3 of Article 15 of the Constitution of India gives powers to the legislature to create special provisions for women and children. […]
Maintenance is a noun that, in legal parlance, means the amount provided to distressed wives, children, or parents for their upkeep, support, or subsistence. This is a benevolent provision of law, as the law says that no person shall leave his wife, children or old parents at the mercy of others and unattended by him; […]
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 […]
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