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: Bombay High Court Bench: JUSTICE V.P. Tipnis Lekhraj Chunilal Jaisingh Vs. Komal @ Anita & Ors. On 4 March 1994 Law Point: Secs. 482, 125 — Quashing Proceedings — Maintenance proceedings — Husband directed lo deposited 75,000/ — Full and final settlement — Whether proceedings liable to be quashed ? — (Yes). JUDGEMENT By […]
Court: Jharkhand High Court Bench: JUSTICE D.G.R. Patnaik Sukro Devi Vs. State Of Jharkhand & Anr. On 19 June 2007 Law Point: Section 125(4) — Maintenance — Adultery — Both Courts below recorded findings of fact and assigned adequate grounds for such findings — Facts of case suggest it was not isolated or solitary instance […]
Court: Punjab And Haryana High Court Bench: JUSTICE S.S. Grewal Gurvinder Singh Vs. Murti And Others On 15 January 1990 Law Point: Nonpayment of Interim Maintenance — Defence struck off — Order challenged — Contention that trial Court has not followed the proper procedure for recovery of maintenance as specifically provided under Sub-section (3) of […]
Court: High Court of Kerala Bench: JUSTICE R. Basant Joseph @ Biju George Vs. Mary @ Priya Thomas & Anr. On 30 July 2008 Law Point: Family Courts Act, 1984 – Sec. 13–Family Court Rules, 1989 (Kerala)–Rule 35–Any arrangement by which dispute settled between parties can fall within the ambit of expression “settlement”–Is not restricted […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: JUSTICES Doraiswamy Raju & Arijit Pasayat Vijay Kumar Prasad Vs. State Of Bihar & Ors. On 7 April 2004 Law Point: Maintenance: Territorial jurisdiction – If son was practising at time of presentation of petition in Patna High Court, he could not have been physically present at Siman: Court […]
Court: Allahabad High Court Bench: JUSTICE P Bakshi Bundoo vs Smt. Mahrul Nisa And Anr. On 22 September 1978 Law Point: Maintenance-Revisional jurisdiction-Failure to prove factum of impotency of Husband-Dismissal of application. JUDGEMENT 1. An application was filed by Shrimati Mahrul Nisa under Section 488, Cr. P.C. claiming maintenance from her husband Bundoo. Her contention […]
Court: High Court Of Jharkhand Bench: JUSTICE Rongon Mukhopadhyay Ramdhani Sah vs. State of Jharkhand and Ors. On 22 June 2016 Law Point: Maximum period for which a person against whom realisation of arrears of maintenance amount is due, has been taken into custody can be for a period of one month and not beyond […]
Court: High Court Of Bombay Bench: High Court Of Bombay Sharadchandra Chandrashekhar Satbhai Vs. Indubai Sharad Satbhai On 25 August 1977 Law Point: The fact that a decree for judicial separation has been passed in favour of the husband on the ground of desertion means that the wife is guilty of refusing to live with […]
Court: High Court Of Rajasthan Bench: JUSTICE R.S. Chauhan Shashi Alias Mala vs. State and Anr. On 27 March 2006 Law Point: In case a wife is divorced on the ground of mutual consent, then she is disentitled from claiming any maintenance or interim maintenance and expenses of proceedings from the husband. Hence petition dismissed. […]
Court: Supreme Court Of India Bench: JUSTICE Ranganath Misra and Lalit Mohan Sharma Yamunabai Anantrao Adhav Vs. Anantrao Shivram Adhav And Another On 27 January 1988 Law Point: Conditions for valid marriage — Void and voidable marriages — Appellant married respondent who was already married — The first marriage was subsisting and the first was […]