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: Supreme Court of India Bhaskar Lal Sharma & Anr vs Monica on 27 July, 2009 Law Point: Kicking with Leg, calling wife’s mother is liar in not an offence under 498A Author: S.B. Sinha Bench: S.B. Sinha, Cyriac Joseph Appellant(s) BHASKAR LAL SHARMA & ANR. Respondent(s) MONICA JUDGEMENT […]
HIGH COURT OF DELHI Bench: JUSTICE O.P.DWIVEDI Smt. Pinki Jain vs Sh. Sanjay Jain on 31-01-2005 Equivalent citations: 2003 (1) AWC 344 SC, (2003) 2 CALLT 23 SC Mr. Gopal Narain Aggarwal, Adv. For the appellant. Mr.Narinder Kaushik, Adv. For the respondent. Law Point: False complaint, family arrest -ground for Divorce JUDGEMENT This appeal is directed against the order dated 24.12.99 passed by […]
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT Smt. Archana vs Dr. P.K. Tomar on 4/2/2003 Bench: B.K. Rathi Law Point: The lodging of the false F.I.R. for offences under Sections 498A, 323, 506, I.P.C. maliciously amounts to the mental cruelty JUDGEMENT 1. This is an appeal under Section 96 of the C.P.C. against the judgment and order dated 7.2.2002 […]
Court: SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Equivalent citations: 1981 AIR 1972, 1982 SCR (1) 695 Bench: Fazalali, S Murtaza SIRAJMOHMEDKHAN JANMOHAMADKHAN vs HAFIZUNNISA YASINKHAN & ANR. on 14/09/1981 N.N. Keshwan and R.N. Keshwani for the Appellant. Vimal Dave and Miss Kailash Mehta for RespondentNo. 1. S C. Patel and R.N. Poddar for Respondent No. 2 Law Point: […]
Supreme Court of India Appeal (crl.) 1613 of 2005 Bench: G.P. MATHUR & R.V. RAVEENDRAN Appasaheb And Anr vs State Of Maharashtra on 5 January, 2007 Law Point: Demand for Domestic Expenses is not dowry u/s 304B JUDGEMENT This appeal, by special leave, has been preferred against the judgment and order dated 23.2.2005 of Bombay […]
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 […]
Court: HIGH COURT OF DELHI Bench: JUSTICE ARUNA SURESH Mrs. Flora Bose vs Suproti Bose on 20 August, 2010 Mr. Sunil Mittal, Adv. For the appellant. Nemo. For the respondent. Law Point: 2 or 3 incidences sufficient for Divorce on ground of cruelty JUDGEMENT 1. Under challenge in this appeal is the judgment and decree of the learned Additional District Judge dated 8th […]
Supreme Court of India Amrendra Kumar Paul vs Maya Paul & Ors on 4 August, 2009 Bench: S.B. Sinha, Cyriac Joseph Law Point: Once children attained majority, provisions of CrPC 125 cease Author: S Sinha Appellant(s) Amarendra Kumar Paul Respondent(s) Maya Paul & Ors. JUDGEMENT 1. Leave granted. 2. Appellants herein are aggrieved by and […]
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPEAL No. 1213 OF 2006 K.SRINIVAS vs K. SUNITA Law Point: Filing a False Criminal Complaint by Either Spouse Would Constitute Matrimonial Cruelty and Entitle the Other Spouse to Claim a Divorce JUDGEMENT VIKRAMAJIT SEN,J. 1. In this Appeal, counsel for the Appellant has sought to draw our attention to […]
Punjab and Haryana High Court Som Dutt vs Raj Kumari on 7 October, 1985 Bench: S Sodhi Equivalent citations: AIR 1986 P H 191 Law Point: Concealment of wife’s age and medical history JUDGMENT 1. A short stay together and long continuing litigation thereafter is what marks the marriage here. It was a marriage conceived […]