A Mumbai court directed a businessman to pay ₹50,000 per month as interim maintenance to his estranged wife while considering, among other expenses, the financial responsibility of maintaining her thr…
Precedent analyses on Section 498A IPC, Section 125 CrPC & BNSS safeguards
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A Mumbai court directed a businessman to pay ₹50,000 per month as interim maintenance to his estranged wife while considering, among other expenses, the financial responsibility of maintaining her thr…
The Himachal Pradesh High Court rejected a wife’s plea seeking ₹40,000 per month as interim maintenance after noting that the spouses had separated just six days after marriage and were both assistant…
The Supreme Court is set to take up the long-pending challenge to the marital rape exception again on September 9, 2026. On September 7, a Bench led by CJI Surya Kant asked about the Union government’…
The Rajasthan High Court held that a husband cannot automatically be made liable for dues arising from his wife’s tenure as a Sarpanch. The Court said spouses are separate legal entities for such liab…
A Barabanki court sentenced a woman and her lover to life imprisonment in connection with her husband’s murder. The prosecution case alleged that the killing was linked to an extramarital relationship…
The Telangana High Court held that merely registering a 498A FIR against a husband and his family does not, by itself, establish matrimonial cruelty. Although the husband and his father spent five day…
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 after about 25 years of…
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 willingness to marry her,…
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 that the amount was insu…
