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 Bench: JUSTICE O.P.DWIVEDI Smt. Jaishree vs Sri Arjun Singh on 17 March, 2011 Mr. Ramji Srivastava, Advocate For the appellant. Mr. Sandeep Tandon, Adv. For the respondent. Law Point: Husband won the divorce on the grounds of Cruelty by wife, divroce granted with limited alimony JUDGEMENT This appeal, preferred under Section 19 of the Family Courts […]
Court: High Court of Delhi Bench: JUSTICE KAILASH GAMBHIR Smt. Nitu Aggarwal vs Sh Gireesh Gupta on 19 November, 2010 Mr. Rajiv Shukla, Adv. For the appellant. Mr.Gyan Prakash, Adv. For the respondent. Law Point: Roping in relatives in false cases amounts to cruelty towards husband JUDGEMENT 1. By this appeal filed under Section 28 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 the appellant […]
Court: Madras High Court Bench: MR.JUSTICE ELIPE DHARMA RAO and MR.JUSTICE K.K.SASIDHARAN R.Sridharan vs The Presiding Officer on 9 July, 2010 Mr.K.Chandra Mouli, Adv. For the appellant. Mrs.Geetha Ramaseshan, Adv. For the respondent. Law Point: Husband US citizen, wife invoking Jurisdiction u/s 19(iii)(a) of HMA to file Divoce in India JUDGEMENT The legality of a matrimonial proceeding initiated by the wife before a family […]
Court: Punjab and Haryana High Court Equivalent citations: AIR 1996 P H 98 Bench: JUSTICE S Saksena Rama Kanta vs Mohinder Laxmidas Bhandula on 7 February, 1995 Law Point: Threats & attempts to commit suicide & lodging false 498A is ground for divorce JUDGEMENT 1. The appellant wife has assailed the judgment and decree dated […]
Court: Rajasthan High Court Equivalent citations: AIR 1986 Raj 13, 1985 (1) WLN 437 Bench: G M Lodha Smt. Shanti Devi vs Raghav Prakash on 29 October, 1984 Law Point: Calling husband impotent, burning his PhD thesis, false allegations amount to cruelty JUDGEMENT 1. An unfortunate feud between the husband & wife has resulted in […]
Court: Mahila Court, Central Distt, Delhi Bench: JUSTICE O.P.DWIVEDI Harpreet Kaur vs Sh. Dilvinder Singh Bedi on 24-05-2011 Law Point: Husband lost job because of complaint,maintenance denied JUDGEMENT Vide this order, I shall dispose off the interim application filed by the complainant u/s 23(2) of D.V. Act filed along with the petition u/s 12 of D.V. […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: V.S. Sirpurkar, T.S. Thakur Ruchi Majoo vs Sanjeev Majoo on 13 May, 2011 Law Point: Husband lost job because of complaint,maintenance denied JUDGEMENT Leave granted. Conflict of laws and jurisdictions in the realm of private international law is a phenomenon that has assumed greater dimensions with the spread […]
Court: Madras High Court Bench: MR. JUSTICE A. KULASEKARAN G. Shyamala Ranjini vs M.S. Tamizhnathan on 20 November, 2007 Mr. S.V. Jayaraman, Sr. Counsel for Mr. N.A. Nissar Ahamed For the appellant. Mrs. Hema Sampath, Sr. Counsel for M/s. V.N.S. Law Firms For the respondent. Law Point: Audio CD evidence in matrimonial case JUDGEMENT The respondent in HMOP No. 96 of […]
Court: HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY Bench: Nitin Jamdar, Sharmila U. Deshmukh Nalini Nagnath Upalkar vs Shri. Nagnath Mahadeo Upalkar on 12 October, 2022 Law Point: Conduct of petitioner-wife in continuing to make unwarranted, false an baseless allegations pertaining to respondent-husband’s character labelling him as alcoholic and womaniser has resulted in shredding his reputation […]
Court: Allahabad High Court Bench: Ashwani Kumar Mishra, Shiv Shanker Prasad Sandeep Kumar Mishra vs State Of U.P. on 16 February, 2023 Law Point: False allegations of sexual assault on the rise JUDGEMENT 1. Heard Shri Sudhir Mehrotra, Shri Pulak Ganguly, learned counsels for the applicants and Shri Shivam Yadav, learned counsel for the informant […]