Can a husband’s phone chats with his bhabhi and engraving her son’s name on his hand become “cruelty” under Section 498A IPC? Bombay High Court said suspicion and moral…
Precedent analyses on Section 498A IPC, Section 125 CrPC & BNSS safeguards
A husband was kept in continuous custody through 23 separate orders of 30 days each for unpaid maintenance to his wife and daughter. Can a Family Court repeatedly extend…
Can a husband’s phone chats with his bhabhi and engraving her son’s name on his hand become “cruelty” under Section 498A IPC? Bombay High Court said suspicion and moral…
Can wife get maintenance even if marriage is treated as invalid? MP High Court says Yes, holding that if marriage rituals were performed and a child was born, the woman’s…
Rajasthan Court gave life imprisonment to the wife and her lover for murdering the husband with a hammer and heater wire, but no sentence can bring the man back to his child and…
The husband was not acquitted, but the MP High Court held that the case did not show clear murderous intent and therefore reduced the conviction from Section 304 Part-I IPC to…
A young businessman went to Lohagad Fort with the woman he was engaged to marry, but he never returned alive. Was Ketan Agarwal’s death an accident, or was he allegedly removed…
Is a welfare scheme house in wife’s name not enough to protect husband from maintenance? Allahabad High Court said yes. Even though the wife had a house allotted under a welfare…
Karnataka High Court delivered an important reminder that maintenance law cannot become financial punishment for husbands when the wife is already earning enough. How long will…
Can a retired Army man avoid proper maintenance by saying he has only pension income? Allahabad High Court said wife and two minor children cannot be left with symbolic…
Can divorce petitions be treated like routine civil cases? Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court says No, holding that matrimonial disputes require a sensitive approach, and…
