Important court decisions for 498A, maintenance, domestic violence, custody, divorce and related legal strategy.
The guidelines laid down in Kusum Sharma v. Mahinder Kumar Sharma (Delhi High Court) have now been superseded by the Supreme Court’s judgment in Rajnesh v. Neha (2020), which provides the uniform framework for determining maintenance across India. Court: High Court Of Delhi Bench: JUSTICE J.R. MIDHA Kusum Sharma vs Mahinder Kumar Sharma on 14 January, 2015 […]
Court: Jammu & Kashmir High Court Bench: Justice Rajnesh Oswal State Of J&K vs Rajesh Kumar on 20 April, 2023 Law Point: In order to convict person for commission of offence under section 306, RPC Prosecution must prove that deceased committed suicide and accused abetted commission of same JUDGEMENT 1. This appeal has been preferred […]
Court: High Court of Delhi Bench: Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Neena Bansal Krishna Devender Govind Ram Ravin vs Rekha on 11 August, 2023 Law Point: Insistence of family of wife for husband to abandon his parents & become ghar jamai & live in their house amounts to cruelty JUDGEMENT 1. The petitioner/appellant (petitioner in […]
Court: Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench: Justice Sanjay Dwivedi Umang Singhar vs State of Madhya Pradesh on 21 September, 2023 Law Point: Section 377 – offence of section 377 between husband and wife has no place JUDGEMENT 1. On finding the pleadings being complete and the learned counsel for the rival parties concurred to argue […]
Court: Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench: Justice Prem Narayan Singh Smt. Sangeeta Rathore vs Naresh Rathore on 17 August, 2023 Law Point: Wife should be legally wedded wife for claiming maintenance from her husband JUDGEMENT This criminal revision has been filed by the petitioner under Section 19(4) of Family Court Act, 1984 being aggrieved by […]
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