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 maintenance when the husband has a legal duty to support them. PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad High Court has allowed a criminal revision filed by a wife and…
The MP High Court reduces the husband’s life sentence to 7 years RI with ₹1,000 fine, but the case leaves one sharp question: if the roles were reversed, would a wife face the same strict punishment? JABALPUR:The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur, through Justice Vivek Agarwal and Justice Avanindra Kumar Singh, partly allowed the…
Can a man be convicted for rape only because marriage was delayed after a consensual relationship? Jharkhand High Court set aside a rape conviction after finding that both adults were in a consensual relationship and later married with children. RANCHI: The Jharkhand High Court has acquitted a man who was convicted in a rape case…
A Delhi court refused to preserve a wife’s call records, saying late-night calls alone cannot be used to question her character. But the ruling also raises a bigger question: when evidence disappears with time, how does a husband prove his defence? NEW DELHI: A Delhi Court has refused a husband’s request to preserve his wife’s…
The case collapsed as the allegations were vague, witnesses contradicted each other, and no reliable evidence connected the accused with dowry-related cruelty before death. NEW DELHI: Additional Sessions Judge Yadvender Singh of a Delhi court has acquitted a husband, his brother and his mother in a 2016 dowry death case after holding that the prosecution…
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