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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Punjab and Haryana High Court JUSTICES S.S. Saron & Navita Singh Harkanwalpreet Singh Vs. Harshpreet Kaur On 17 January 2014 Law Point: Respondent had spouse living at the time of her marriage with appellant — Contravention of Section 5(i) of Act — Merely because they have been married for considerable time, no ground for pardoning […]
Andhra Pradesh High Court L. Narasimha Reddy & M.S.K. Jaiswal S. Mahender Vs. Shalini On 2 January 2014 Law Point: Section 12(1)(c) gets attracted only when consent obtained by fraud or through force — Respondent has not made out case under Section 12(1)(c) of Act. JUDGEMENT 1. The appellant is the husband of the respondent. […]
Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: JUSTICE G.P. Mathur & Dalveer Bhandari Sanghamitra Ghosh Vs. Kajal Kumar Ghosh On 20 November 2006 Law Point: Obligation of Court that marriage status should, as far as possible, as long as possible and whenever possible, be maintained — However when marriage is totally dead, in that event, nothing […]
Andhra Pradesh High Court JUSTICE Umesh Chandra Banerjee, CJ., B. Subhashan Reddy & Chelameswar Kola Emmanuel Vs. Nallipogu Sunanda On 23 February 1998 Law Point: The word ‘impotence’ is not related to a particular gender like male only. Incapability of copulation on the part of either of the spouses either due to structural defects in […]
Court: High Court Of Orissa Bench: JUSTICES Vinod Prasad and S.K. Sahoo Ranjana Rani Panda and Ors. Vs. Sanjay Kumar Panda On 22 December 2015 Law Point: Husband and Wife not interested to live with each other – It would be in interest of parties to sever matrimonial ties since marriage has broken down irretrievably. […]
Court: Supreme Court Of India Bench: JUSTICES D.P. Mohapatra & U.C. Banerjee R. Lakshmi Narayan Vs. Santhi On 1 May 2001 Law Point: One of the parties incapable of giving consent. Marriage null and void. JUDGEMENT 1. On analysis of the case of the parties and the contentions raised by learned Counsel […]