Important court decisions for 498A, maintenance, domestic violence, custody, divorce and related legal strategy.
Bombay High Court JUSTICE Bharati H. Dangre Sumit Vijay Kumar Vs. Shraddha Gupta Jain On 13 April 2018 Law Point: Family Court has considered earning capacity of husband and wife and also liabilities borne by them — Court has considered bank statement of husband which was placed on record and also referred to certain credit […]
Court: Bombay High Court Bench: JUSTICE Vasanti A Naik, J. & Swapna Joshi Sudhir Kamlakar Kharbade Vs. Sangita On 20 April 2018 Law Point: Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 – Sections 13(1)(ia), (ib) – Cruelty – Desertion – Appreciation of evidence – Wife respondent has ill-treated appellant-husband, in-laws and lodged false complaint against him under Section […]
Bombay High Court JUSTICE M.L. Tahaliyani Ramu Shankar Wagh Vs. State Of Maharashtra On 11 Feb 2014 Law Point: Section 113B — Cruelty — Abetment of Suicide — Presumption — Major allegation of evidence was found missing from police statements creates a serious doubt about correctness of evidence of witnesses — No evidence to establish […]
Court: Allahabad High Court Bench: JUSTICE Vijay Lakshmi Sanjeev Kumar Agarwal Vs. Rashmi Agarwal & Anr. On 9 May 2014 Law Point: Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Sections 12, 22 — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 125 — Domestic Violence — Compensation orders — Justification — Wife had not moved […]
Court: Jharkhand High Court Bench: JUSTICE Aparesh Kumar Singh, J. & Ratnaker Bhengra Raju Vishwakarma Vs. Seema Devi On 17 May 2018 Law Point: Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 Sections 13(1)(ia), (ib) Cruelty Desertion Two examples of cruelty committed by respondent-wife, viz. false or repeated case against appellant-husband, in addition to his family members/relatives and sexual […]
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