Important court decisions for 498A, maintenance, domestic violence, custody, divorce and related legal strategy.
Court: Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE K.L. Shrivastava Usha Vs. Vimal Kumar On 5 January 1987 Law Point: Section 13(1)(ia) — Husband’s petition for divorce on wife’s cruelty — Wife asked to accompany husband and engaged herself in a scuffle with him and also slapped him — Altercation seen by witness — Her behaviour […]
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE Shiv Narayan Dhingra Razia Begum Vs. State, Nct Of Delhi & Ors. On 4 October 2010 Law Point: Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Sections 2(q), 2(f) — ‘Respondent’ — Every relative of husband cannot be made as respondent — In order to fix liability upon […]
Court: PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT Bench: JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR Sanjiv Kumar Vs. State Of Haryana And Another On 21 May 2012 Law Point: Section 498A/406 – Brother-in-law(Jeth), residing separately. The complainant appears to have falsely involved the petitioner in the present case. Therefore, the impugned FIR and all other subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, […]
Court:Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE S N Dhingra Kanchan Gulati And Anr. Vs. The State And Ors. On 12 September 2007 Law Point: Section 498A/406/34 – No offence has been committed by any of the petitioners. There are no allegations of cruelty against the petitioners. Criminal law can not be allowed to be used to […]
Court:Himachal Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE Rajiv Sharma Pritam Singh Vs. Nirmala Devi On 9 April 2014 Law Point: Section 125 — Maintenance — Enhancement — Compromise was arrived at between parties during pendency of proceedings — Compromise was signed by parties and wife had given up her future maintenance — Husband has given pucca house […]
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