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: HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND First Appeal No.76 of 2008 Bench: Hon’ble Prafulla C. Pant, J. and Hon’ble Nirmal Yadav, J. Sunita Arya, W/O Surendra Dev vs Surendra Dev on 26 August, 2010 Shri D.K. Sharma, Adv. For the appellant. Shri M.K. Ray, Adv. For the respondent. Law Point: Marriage Irretrievably broken down, husband granted divorce JUDGEMENT This appeal, preferred under section 19 […]
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Altamas Kabir, Cyriac Joseph Anil Kumar Jain vs Maya Jain on 1 September, 2009 Law Point: Mutual Divorce filed, wife not willing to give divorce, husband fulfilled his part of the agreement, SC grants Mutual Divorce. JUDGEMENT Leave The short point for decision in this appeal is whether a decree can […]
Court: CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT Bench: JUSTICE Parth Prateem Sahu ANANDAKRISHNAN Vs. PUSHPALATHA On 22 February 2021 Law Point: Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Sections 13, 9 — Irretrievable breakdown of marriage — Dissolution of marriage — Parties living separately for more than 15 years — Non-implementation of decree of restitution — Parties have no intention […]
Court: Madras High Court Bench: JUSTICE P.D.DINAKARAN and JUSTICE CHITRA VENKATARAMAN S.Chandra vs C.V.Sridharan on 21 February, 2007 Mrs.Geetha Ramaseshan, Adv. For the appellant. Mr.A.S.Balaji, Adv. For the respondent. Law Point: Claim alimony within 6 Months of Divorce JUDGEMENT (Judgment of the Court was delivered by CHITRA VENKATARAMAN,J.) This appeal is against the order dated 24.10.2002 made in F.C.O.P.No.1236 of 1997 on the file of the […]
Court: Bombay High Court Equivalent citations: AIR 1995 Bom 246, 1995 (1) BomCR 47, (1994) 96 BOMLR 592, I (1995) DMC 532 Bench: A Agarwal, A Savant Rajan Vasant Revankar vs Mrs. Shobha Rajan Revankar on 24 March, 1994 Law Point: Pleadings events subsequent to the law suit can be also taken into account as […]