Important court decisions for 498A, maintenance, domestic violence, custody, divorce and related legal strategy.
Court: Supreme Court Of India Bench: JUSTICES Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya & V. Gopala Gowda Saraswathy Vs Babu On 25 November 2013 Law Point: Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Sections 2(g), 3(iv), 3(iv)(c) — “Domestic Violence” — Protection orders— Residence orders — “Economic Abuse” — Monetary reliefs — Continuance of domestic violence […]
Court: Madras High Court Bench: JUSTICE K.M. Natarajan, A.P. Ranga Rao Vs Vijayalakshmi On 26 September 1988 Law Point: Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia) — Cruelty Meaning of — Several attempts by wife to commit suicide — Acts or ‘conduct of the party charged must be cruel according to the ordinary sense of […]
Court: Supreme Court Of India Bench: JUSTICES Vikramajit Sen & Abhay Manohar Sapre Vinod Kumar Subbiah Vs Saraswathi Palaniappan On 24 April 2015 Law Point: Decree of restitution of conjugal rights in favour of the husband. Interim maintenance should not be endorsed. JUDGEMENT These Appeals assail the Judgment of the learned Single Judge of the […]
Court: Rajasthan High Court Bench: JUSTICES Pradeep Nandrajog, CJ. & Vinit Kumar Mathur Lalit Kumar Mehta Vs Sanjeeta On 12 July 2018 Law Point: Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13(1)(ia) — Mental Cruelty — Appreciation of evidence — Marriage never took off — Rash actions of respondent wife under trivial matters — Since childhood […]
Court: Calcutta High Court Bench: JUSTICES Joymalya Bagchi, J. & Rajarshi Bharadwaj Gobinda Das Vs State Of West Bengal On 3 January 2018 Law Point: Indian Penal Code, 1860 — Sections 306, 498A — Evidence Act, 1872 — Section 113A — Abetment of suicide — Cruelty — Presumption — Death of deceased by sustaining burn […]
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