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: Uttarakhand High Court Bench: JUSTICE Prafulla C. Pant & Sudhanshu Dhulia Anandi Devi Vs. Komal Kumar On 2 December 2010 Law Point: Wife made no attempt to come back to her husband’s house nor tried to contact him over phone — Husband has sufficiently proved on record that he was subjected to cruelty by […]
Court: Bomaby High Court Bench: JUSTICE P.R. Bora Vivek Vs. Minal On 11 September 2017 Law Point: Sufficient proof of allegation of cruelty by husband on part of wife — No reason to refuse decree of divorce. JUDGEMENT 1. Aggrieved by the Judgment and decree passed in Special Marriage Petition No. 06 of 2009 by […]
Court: Punjab and Haryana Court Bench: JUSTICE M.C. Garg and Sheel Nagu Mamta Bhardwaj vs. Madhusudan Bhardwaj On 16 January 2015 Law Point: Wife made allegations on her sister-in-law to create situation where relationship between parties comes to worst. Wife was guilty of inflicting cruelty upon Husband including mental cruelty of worst kind. Marriage dissolved. […]
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICES Reva Khetrapal & Pratibha Rani Om Prakash Poddar Vs. Rina Kumari On 23 July 2013 Law Point: Respondent/wife did not care to cause appearance or any point of time expressed her willingness to live with appellant-husband as his wife — Wife is residing separately with her parents from petitioner. […]
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE Kailash Gambhir Shashi Bala Vs. Rajiv Arora On 21 March 2012 Law Point: Denial of sexual intercourse after marriage — Refusal to perform customary rituals — Sex is the foundation of marriage and marriage without sex is an anathema — Wilful denial of sexual intercourse without reasonable cause would […]
Court: Allahabad High Court Bench: JUSTICE R.P. Misra & Krishna Murari Sadhana Srivastava Vs. Arvind Kumar Srivastava On 6 September 2005 Law Point: Mental and Physical Cruelty: Allegations of having an illicit relationship and extramarital affairs made by wife against husband amounted to cruelty: Various criminal proceedings initiated against husband found to be a false […]
Court: Rajasthan High Court Bench: JUSTICE Shiv Kumar Sharma & Harbans Lal Indu Mishra Vs. Kovid Kumar Gaur & Anr. On 20 December 2005 Law Point: Totally false and baseless allegation leveled against Husband by Wife about having illicit relations with his Bhabhi, clearly tantamounts to cruelty on her part to respondent-husband — Respondent-husband entitled […]
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: 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 […]