The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that forced unnatural sex by a husband is cruelty under Section 498A IPC but cannot be treated as rape because of the marital exception under Section 375 IPC. The C…
Precedent analyses on Section 498A IPC, Section 125 CrPC & BNSS safeguards
A wife and her lover brutally murdered her husband and staged a snakebite to cover up the crime! How did the postmortem report and phone records expose their deadly conspiracy? Meerut Court Sentences…
The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that forced unnatural sex by a husband is cruelty under Section 498A IPC but cannot be treated as rape because of the marital exception under Section 375 IPC. The C…
The Delhi High Court set aside a 50% pension cut imposed on a government servant for declaring his live-in partner as wife, holding that transparency cannot be branded as “gross misconduct.” The Court…
The Supreme Court has acknowledged misuse of the POCSO Act and urged the Centre to introduce a “Romeo-Juliet” clause to protect “genuine adolescent relationships”. The Court also restrained courts fro…
A California court has directed Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu to furnish a USD 1.7 billion bond in his ongoing divorce case amid a dispute over asset transfers and community property rights. Vembu’s l…
The Calcutta High Court has allowed divorce by holding that long separation, cruelty, and a completely broken marriage cannot be kept alive only in law. The Court ruled that irretrievable breakdown is…
The Calcutta High Court ruled that a divorced daughter can claim family pension if she was dependent and divorce proceedings began during the pensioner’s lifetime—even if the decree came later. Once d…
The Supreme Court granted anticipatory bail to an IT professional accused by his former divorce lawyer after their consensual relationship ended. The Court held that criminal law cannot be misused aft…
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that a neighbour or stranger cannot be booked under Section 498A IPC in a marital cruelty case. Dragging outsiders into matrimonial fights amounts to abuse of law an…
The Delhi High Court ruled that a married woman’s abortion, if done within the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, cannot be criminalised even when sought due to marital discord affecting her mental…
