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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Supreme Court of India JUSTICE Dr. Arijit Pasayat & P. Sathasivam Tarakanath Kar Vs. Lipika Kar On 07 May 2008 Law Point: Dispute whether ‘C’ or respondent ‘L’ legally married wife of appellant or was it case of bigamy — Direction for initiation of departmental proceedings by High Court — Improper and invalid — High […]
Madhya Pradesh High Court JUSTICE Dipak Misra Raghubir Yadav Vs. Purnima Kharga (Yadav) On 18 September 2000 Law Point: Income of Husband Fixed on Conjectures: Fact that Wife Worked in Television Serials and Stage Plays and Earned Some Income from said Sources, not Considered by A.D.J.: Trial Judge’s Order does not Withstand Close Scrutiny : […]
Calcutta High Court JUSTICE Tarun Chatterjee Malaya Das (Nee) Ghosh Vs. Basudeb Das On 30 September 1996 Law Point: Revisional Court –– Does not retain its jurisdiction to increase the maintenance. JUDGEMENT This revisional application is directed against an order being order No. 102 dated 23rd May, 1994 passed by Mr. R.N. Mallick Choudhury, Additional […]
Supreme Court of India JUSTICE R.C. Lahoti & Brijesh Kumar Prasanta Kumar Dey Vs. State of West Bengal & Anr. On 04 Decemer 2000 Law Point: Second Revision Application: Maintainability : Fit Case for Interference, Shorn of Technicalities Under Section 401 r/w Section 482, Cr.P.C. — Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 — Sections 125, 126(2), 397, […]
Calcutta High Court JUSTICE Basudeva Panigrahi Dhananjoy Samanta Vs. Sabitri Samanta On 14 March 2000 Law Point: Wife and Other Dependent Shall Not be Entitled to More Than 1/5th Each From Gross Amount — Petitioner receiving Rs. 5,700/- p.m. as salary as Assistant Teacher — Petitioner liable to pay @ Rs. 1,150/- to opposite party […]
Supreme Court of India JUSTICE B.P. Singh & Arun Kumar Ramkaran Vs. Gyarsi & Anr. On 24 January 2005 Law Point: Maintenance rejected to wife as she separated from appellant-husband for no justifiable reason — Father of respondent was demanding sum of Rs. 30,000/- for sending her to house of appellant-husband — Revisional Court confirmed […]
Andhra Pradesh High Court JUSTICE K.B. Siddappa Jupally Veeraswamy Vs. Jupally Shantamma & Anr. On 8 April 1996 Law Point: No revision against an interlocutory order, second revision application not maintainable — Exercise of extra-ordinary jurisdiction of High Court u/Sec. 482, Cr.P.C. — To correct the abuse of process of Court — Not to convert […]
Court:Uttarakhand High Court Bench: Nirmal Yadav & Prafulla C. Pant Godambari Devi Vs. Devi Prasad & Ors. On 16 September 2010 Law Point: Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 28 — Appeal against grant of decree of divorce — Appellant treated husband with cruelty and deserted him in May 1996 without any sufficient cause — […]
Court:Supreme Court Bench: JUSTICE P. Sathasivam & Ranjan Gogoi Deoki Panjhiyara Vs. Shashi Bhushan Narayan Azad & Anr. On 12 December 2012 Law Point: Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 — Section 12 — Special Marriage Act, 1954 — Section 13 — Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 — Section 11 — Maintenance — Void […]
Rajasthan High Court JUSTICE J.B. Garg Harikishan Vs. Shanti Devi On 4 September 1987 Law Point: Application for cancellation of maintenance pleading parties after marriage never cohabited and minor not the child of the marriage. Whether order grating maintenance to minor liable to be cancelled — Yes. JUDGEMENT 1. This is an application under Section […]