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.
CONSULTATION
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE Vipin Sanghi SA Vs. AA On 22 March 2016 Law Point: Mental Cruelty — Wife taunted Husband for not being able to satiate her sexual desire on account of his being heavy weight — Calling of names and hurling of abuses. Incidents are grave and weighty matrimonial offences by […]
Court: Uttarakhand High Court Bench: JUSTICE Prafulla C. Pant & V.K. Bist Pradeep Kumar Juyal Vs. Kanti Devi Law Point: Divorce, Cruelty, Desertion — Husband and wife not living together — Testimony of husband reliable — Wife told him not to come back, so that she may have pension — Trial Court committed error of […]
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE Pradeep Nandrajog & Pratibha Rani Geeta Pandey Vs. Shekhar Pandey On 6 September 2016 Law Point: Threat to commit suicide by consuming acid — By said act, wife alleged to be pregnant created fear in the mind of husband and his family. Fear in the mind of husband and […]
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE Pradeep Nandrajog & Pratibha Rani Nirmala Vs. Manoj Kumar On 14 September 2016 Law Point: Illicit relations — Baseless allegations by wife — Wife suffering from delusion and continuously under treatment — Appellant-wife living with her parents most of the time after her marriage and she had been under […]
Court: Bombay High Court Bench: JUSTICE A.S. Oka, J. & A.A. Sayed Christine Lazarus Menezes Vs. Lazarus Peter Menezes On 21 April 2017 Law Point: Marriage between parties irretrievably broken down — Parties cannot be reasonably expected to live together — Wife has made wild unsubstantiated allegations against husband — Applicant-husband subjected to mental cruelty […]
Court: Calcutta High Court Bench: JUSTICE Jyotiram Bhattacharya & Debi Prosad Dey Rita Bandopadhyay Vs. Abhik Bandopadhyay On 15 June 2015 Law Point: Unfounded allegations against husband not proved by wife — Holy relationship of brother and sister maligned by wife that it pricks to conscience of Court to accept that wife is guilty of […]
Court: Bombay High Court Bench: JUSTICE H.L. Gokhale & V.K. Tahilramani Manisha Sandeep Gade Vs. Sandeep Vinayak Gade On 1 October 2004 Law Point: Allegations made by wife baseless and false and constituted cruelty : Learned Judge right in granting decree of divorce on that ground and rejecting her petition for maintenance under Section 18 […]
Court: Supreme Court Of India Bench: JUSTICE Anil R. Dave & L. Nageswara Rao Narendra Vs. K. Meena On 6 October 2016 Law Point: Constant persuasion by wife for getting separated from family members of husband — Wife wanted husband to leave his parents — Persistent effort of respondent-wife to constrain the appellant-husband to be […]
Court: Uttaranchal High Court Bench: JUSTICE P.C. Verma & Prafulla C. Pant Madhu Kuksal Vs. Anup Kuksal On 7 July 2005 Law Point: Husband successfully proved he was treated with cruelty by his wife, by her acts of hurling abuses at him and beating members of his family : Alleged acts of violence on part […]
Court: Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE A.K. Awasthy Narendra Kumar Gupta Vs. Mrs. Mamta Gupta On 16 April 2003 Law Point: Cruelty, Adultery : Wife made scandalous statement against appellant/husband about his illicit relation with his elder brother’s wife : Trial Court wrongly held that allegations made by respondent/wife in her written statement and […]