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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Court: Punjab and Haryana High Court Bench: JUSTICE V.M. Jain Hussan Lal Vs. State Of Punjab & Anr. On 11 January 2002 Law Point: Section 406, 498-A — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Section 469 — Criminal Breach of Trust, Cruelty : Limitation for Offence is 3 Years : Limitation shall Commence on Date of […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: JUSTICE D.P. Mohapatra & P. Venkatarama Reddi Rishi Anand & Anr. Vs. Government Of N.c.t. Of Delhi & Ors. Decided on 20 March 2002 Law Point: Alleged Acts of Beating, Even if Assumed to be Correct, does not make out Case to Proceed under Section 406, IPC. The same […]
Court: Supreme Court Of India Bench: JUSTICE Aftab Alam & Ranjana Prakash Desai Chandralekha & Ors. Vs. State Of Rajasthan & Anr. on 14 December 2012 Law Point: Criminal Breach of Trust, Cruelty — Quashing of FIR — Allegations are extremely general in nature — No specific role is attributed to Husband and his Family. […]
Court: High Court Of Judicature at Allahabad Bench: JUSTICE Ram Surat Ram Kapil Goyal Vs. State Of U.P. And Anr on 25.4.2016 Anil Kumar Bajpai, Adv. For the appellant G.A. For the respondent. Law Point: Written Statement/reply can be filed by husband staying outside India through Power of Attorney in a maintenance case JUDGEMENT Heard Sri Anil Kumar Bajpai for the petitioner. This […]
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE Suresh Kait Poonam Singh Vs State & Ors. on 22 August, 2013 Law Point: Allegations are so absurd that no reasonable man would accept the same, there is also no allegation of entrustment of any dowry article against the petitioners. Proceedings dropped JUDGEMENT Crl. M.A. Nos. 18903 & 18904/2011 […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: G.S. Singhvi, Asok Kumar Ganguly Inst.Of Chartered Accountants Of … vs Vimal Kumar Surana & Anr on 1 December, 2010 Law Point: Matters can be remitted back to lower courts for fresh consideration in the interest of justice. JUDGEMENT 1. Leave granted. 2. The question which arises […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: Dipak Misra, Prafulla C. Pant Priyanka Srivastava & Anr vs State Of U.P.& Ors on 19 March, 2015 Law Point: Affidavit must for complaint u/s 156(3) including matrimonial cases. JUDGEMENT The present appeal projects and frescoes a scenario which is not only disturbing but […]
Court: Delhi District Court Bench: Sh. Inderjeet Singh Manish Kapoor vs Charu Kapoor on 28 August, 2010 Law Point: Trial court ordered residence rights in the property of father, Session court overturned. Landmark Judgement in DV. JUDGEMENT 1.1 (Introduction) – The respondent Smt. Charu Kapoor filed an application under section 12 of Protection of […]
Court: Kerala High Court Bench: JUSTICE M. Sasidharan Nambiar Shanavas vs Raseena on 10 December, 2010 Law Point: NBW cannot be issued for non payment of maintenance under section 23(1) of DV act JUDGEMENT First respondent, through her mother, filed petition under Section 12 of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act before Judicial First Class Magistrate’s Court-II, […]
Court: Heigh Court of Delhi Bench: JUSTICE Pradeep Nandrajog Alok Kumar Jain vs Purnima Jain on 17-04-2007 Law Point: Factors for awarding Interim Maintenace under section 24 Hindu Marriage Act JUDGEMENT 1. Alok Kumar Jain was married to Ms.Purnima Jain at New Delhi. They were blessed with 2 daughters. 2. Alok Kumar Jain was employed […]