Some years back, I was sucked into the labyrinth of Indian Matrimonial laws and a false 498a in particular. To be fair, before it hit me, it was difficult for me to fathom the wide spread misuse of dowry laws and specially 498a in India.
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Introduction The term ‘maintenance’ is defined as an amount payable by the husband to his wife who is unable to maintain herself either during the subsistence of marriage or upon separation or divorce. ‘Maintenance’ and ‘alimony’ have been used interchangeably, the term alimony means an allowance or amount which a court orders the husband to […]
What are the Punishments and How to get a Bail in Rape Case. With the passage of time and the change in time, a country’s law must develop. As for any civil society, society demands strict laws in a difficult time, but a question always remains when it comes to drafting a particular law how […]
MARZ BADTA GAYA JYUN JYUN DAWA KI Time and again, various High Courts and Supreme Court and Committees have advocated that 498a (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty: Proposed Section 84 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023) be made bailable and compoundable. Time and again, the government has made up its […]
Discharge in criminal cases and Quash are favorite topics of discussion in most of the Men’s Rights Group’s weekly meetings, discussions on web portals and even in WhatsApp groups. The same is buoyed by the partial discharges from 406 or other allied offences like 325, 313, etc. or even when some of the relatives are […]
False Sexual Harassment at Workplace charges have now become a routine. However, there is a lack of material available on how to defend oneself from such false claims. The situation for men is similar to when one facing false dowry harassment charges under 498A (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty: Proposed […]
Suddenly, the middle class got paranoid about the safety of their sisters, wives and daughters when ‘India’s Daughter’, re-re-provoked by interest in Rapes happening in India. Re-re-provoked? Oh just couple of months back it was Uber Rape Case and then few months back there were two bodies hanging in some village in Ballia duly raped […]
What is Section 498A ? IPC 498A is one of the sections of the Indian Penal Code inserted in the year 1986 to protect women from harassment on account of demand of Dowry. As per definition: The statute says that 498A. Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty.—Whoever, being the husband […]
What is Mutual Divorce? When both parties to the marriage want to end the marriage and reach an agreement to this effect and, upon satisfying specific other legal requirements, mutually present a petition for divorce in a court having territorial jurisdiction, it is called Divorce by Mutual Consent and is also colloquially called Mutual Divorce. […]
Recently, when, for some specific purposes, I was looking for the exhaustive definition of Stridhan and its distinction with Dowry, I found the material or definitions available on the net mostly wanting. In most places, it is mentioned that a property acquired by a woman before, at the time of marriage and later is Stridhan. […]