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: Punjab And Haryana High Court Bench: JUSTICE M.M. Punchhi Shashi Lata Sharma Vs. Chetan Sarup On 25 April 1984 Law Point: Section 13(1)(ia) and 20(2) — Husband’s petition for divorce on ground of wife’s cruelty granted by Trial Court — Appeal against by wife — Appellate Court finding wife leaving matrimonial home 12 days […]
Court: Andhra Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE Ranga Reddy Alamuri Lalitha Devi & Ors. Vs. State Of Andhra Pradesh On 22 August 1994 Law Point: Section 498-A — Cruelty — No evidence that death is homicidal or suicide — Evidence suggest, might be natural death — A reasonable nexus has to be established between cruelty […]
Court: Punjab and Haryana High Court Bench: JUSTICE G.R. Majithia Kashmir Kaur Vs. Prem Singh On 24 November 1989 Law Point: Section 13 — Marriage dissolved by decree of divorce on ground of desertion and cruelty — Appeal by wife — Husband a widower having a son from first wife — Appeared that wife is […]
Court: Supreme Court Of India Bench: JUSTICES Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya & Prafulla C. Pant Vidhya Viswanathan Vs. Kartik Balakrishnan On 22 September 2014 Law Point: Section 13(1)(ia) — Mental Cruelty — Sexual deprivation by wife — Non-consummation of marriage on part of appellant- wife — Respondent-husband, in his evidence has narrated in detail incidents of […]
Court: Punjab And Haryana High Court Bench: JUSTICE Prafulla C. Pant & Servesh Kumar Gupta Anupama Pandey Vs. Ashutosh Pandey On 22 April 2011 Law Point: Family Courts Act, 1984 — Section 19 — Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 13 — Divorce — Cruelty — Appellant married and two children were born out of […]
Court: Punjab and Haryana High Court Bench: JUSTICES S.S. SARON and NAVITA SINGH Uma Soni vs Suresh Soni on 3 April 2014 Law Point: Divorce on ground of cruelty – Appeal – Appealant wife misbehaved not only with husband and in-laws but also with guests and visitors – Appealant also filed criminal cases against respondent […]
Court: High Court Of Delhi Bench: JUSTICE S. Muralidhar Darshana Devi Vs. Anil Kumar Saini On 13 June 2007 Law Point: Section 13(1)(ia) — Cruelty — Prima facie case made out — Trial Court rightly held respondent wife along with her father caused mental cruelty upon petitioner husband in deserting his matrimonial home, after birth […]
Court: High Court of Rajasthan Bench: JUSTICE Shiv Kumar Sharma and Vineet Kothari Vimla Bai Vs. Panchu Lal On 05 February 2007 Law Point: Involvement of Appellant wife in a murder case amounts to cruelty and Family Court had rightly granted decree of divorce. JUDGEMENT 1. The relationship between the spouses is a matter concerning […]
Court: Rajasthan High Court Bench: JUSTICE V.S. Kokje & K.S. Rathore Smt. Parvati Vs. Prem Singh On 29 January 2001 Law Point: Section 13 — Cruelty: Wife Practised Cruelty by Her Own Misbehaviour and by Making False Allegations Against Her Husband About His Having Illicit Relations with His Brother’s Wife: Family Court Justified in Passing […]
Court: Allahabad High Court Bench: JUSTICES M. Katju & R.S. Tripathi Vimla Devi Vs. Ram Babu On 6 April 2004 Law Point: Cruelty: What amounts to : False, scandalous, malicious, baseless and unproved allegations made by one spouse amounts to cruelty : Cruelty may consist of single act or series of acts. JUDGEMENT Heard learned […]