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: Jharkhand High Court Cr. Revision No. 137 of 2010 Bench: JUSTICE D.K.SINHA Ram Nandan Jha vs State Of Jharkhand & Anr on 14 February, 2011 Mr. B.M.Tripathy, Adv. and Mr. Navin Kumar Jaiswal For the appellant. Mr. T. Kabiraj, A.P.P. For State M/s N.P.Singh, Bhaiya Vishwajeet Kumar & A.K.Singh, Advocates. For OP2 Law Point: DP3 filed against father […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: S.N.Variava, K.T.Thomas Basavaraj R. Patil And Others vs State Of Karnataka And Others on 11 October, 2000 Law Point: Under CrPC 313, the presence of accused may be exempted JUDGEMENT Leave granted. When a criminal court completes prosecution evidence (other than in summons cases) is it indispensably […]
Court: High Court of Delhi Equivalent citations: 19 (1981) DLT 75 Bench: C Talwar Harvinder Singh vs The Delhi Administration on 27 August, 1980 Law Point: Handcuffing of a prisoner while being escorted from jail to the Courts or any other place such as the hospitals and back, is not permissible under law JUDGEMENT […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Equivalent citations: 1989 SCR (1) 560, 1989 SCC (1) 715 Bench: Shetty, K.J. (J) Stree Atyachar Virodhi Parishad … vs Dilip Nathumal Chordia & Anr on 8 February, 1989 Mr. Gopal Narain Aggarwal, Adv. For the appellant. Mr.Narinder Kaushik, Adv. For the respondent. Law Point: Moral obligation versus legal obligation ACT: Criminal Procedure Code, 1973: ss. 227 & […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: S.B. Sinha, G.S. Singhvi Sanapareddy Maheedhar vs State Of Andhra Pradesh on 13 December, 2007 Law Point: 498A Quashed, continuing proceedings after 7 years of complainant getting re-married is abuse of court process JUDGEMENT Leave granted. This appeal is directed against the order dated 6.12.2006 passed by the learned Single Judge of […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: D.P. Mohapatra, Brijesh Kumar. Parveen Mehta vs Inderjit Mehta on 11 July, 2002 Law Point: Defination of Mental Cruelty. In case of mental cruelty it will not be a correct approach to take an instance of misbehavior in isolation and then pose the question whether such behavior is sufficient […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: P. Sathasivam, B.S. Chauhan Pankaj Mahajan vs Dimple @ Kajal on 30 September, 2011 Law Point: Suicide Threats a Ground for Divorce JUDGEMENT P.Sathasivam,J. 1) Leave granted. 2) This appeal is directed against the final judgment and order dated 06.08.2009 passed by the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at […]
Court: Punjab and Haryana High Court Bench: JUSTICE O.P.DWIVEDI Rishi Pal vs Luxmi Devi And Another on 27 August, 2009 Mr. Vishal Gupta, Adv. For the appellant. None For the respondent. Law Point: It is well settled law, that filing of false criminal case against the spouse is an act of cruelty, on the basis of which the spouse suffering, is […]
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE Najmi Waziri Mrs. Anil Singh vs Dr. Narender Singh On 21 August 2014 Law Point: Divorce on ground of cruelty – Allegations of adultery – Burden of Proof – Allegations of adultery made by wife. Allegations of adultery have a consequence of damaging one’s reputation, taking away the dignity […]