A Bengaluru court held a wife and her lover guilty of a planned murder, sentencing both to life imprisonment for killing the woman’s husband. BENGALURU: A Bengaluru Court presided over by Civil & Sessions Judge A. Jayaprakash, has sentenced a woman and her lover to life imprisonment for murdering her husband after allegedly mixing sleeping…
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 Section 304 Part-II IPC. JABALPUR: The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur, through Justice Vivek Agarwal and Justice Avanindra Kumar Singh, partly allowed the…
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 because he had become an obstacle? MAHARASHTRA: The Vadgaon Maval Court has sent accused Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary to police custody till July…
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 scheme, the husband still remained liable to pay maintenance because the Court held that a house is not a source of livelihood. PRAYAGRAJ: The…
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 husbands be treated as default paymasters? BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court, through Hon’ble Dr. Justice Chillakur Sumalatha, has set aside an interim maintenance order passed against a husband in…
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