The Karnataka High Court held that maintenance is not automatic merely because the parties are living separately. In the case before it, the wife had left the matrimonial home…
Precedent analyses on Section 498A IPC, Section 125 CrPC & BNSS safeguards
An 84-year-old man argued that his pension supported him and his ailing wife, yet he was ordered to pay ₹17,000 every month. Why did the Jharkhand High Court reject his appeal…
The Karnataka High Court held that maintenance is not automatic merely because the parties are living separately. In the case before it, the wife had left the matrimonial home…
The Karnataka High Court granted regular bail to a man booked under Section 69 BNS after noting that the woman herself stated that he had approached her mother and expressed…
A Delhi Sessions Court refused to enhance a wife’s interim maintenance and upheld an award of ₹1,840 per month under the Domestic Violence Act. Although the court acknowledged…
The Madras High Court rejected a Family Court’s reasoning that a husband who moved to another city for employment without taking his wife along could effectively be blamed for her…
A Delhi court dismissed a wife’s ₹50 lakh damages suit against her husband’s alleged partner for “alienation of affection.” The court held that merely proving a subsisting…
The Patna High Court refused to interfere with the rejection of a husband’s divorce plea based largely on allegations that his wife had an adulterous relationship and was once…
The Jharkhand High Court quashed rape proceedings against a man after noting that the relationship between the two adults had continued consensually for more than seven years. The…
The Supreme Court granted divorce to a husband after finding that his wife had abandoned the matrimonial relationship and the couple had remained separated since December 2005.…
The Madras High Court granted divorce to a CRPF constable who alleged that his wife had developed an adulterous relationship while his job required him to remain away from home…
