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: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE Leila Seth Urmila Devi Vs. Devinder Kumar Parcha On 8 December 1982 Law Point: Husband’s petition for dissolution of Marriage owing to wife’s cruelty — Wife asking husband to live separately due to ill-treatment of her mother-in-law — Wife writing letters to husband threatening him to insult in his […]
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICES M. Jagannadha Rao, C.J. & Dalveer Bhandari Alka Vs. Dr. R.k. Gautam On 1 March 1996 Law Point: Indifferent behaviour with the husband and his relations––Trying to jump from balcony on the event of marriage in family––Not permitting normal sex to respondent—Indifference to the ailing father-in-law––Cruelty. JUDGEMENT 1. This […]
Court: Delhi High Court Bench: JUSTICE J.B. Garg S. Ravindra Bhat & Najmi Waziri Law Point: Divorce — Cruelty by wife — Allegation of illicit relationship with his sister-in-law and niece of respondent itself constitutes cruelty — Respondent was subjected to cruelty after settlement agreement and it continued till impugned judgment was passed — Decree […]
Court: Himachal Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE R.L. Khurana & M.R. Verma Meenakshi Mehta Vs. Major Atul Mehta On 16 July 1999 Law Point: Cruelty : Legal : False Allegations of Harassment, Physical Assault, Not Providing Maintenance : Amounts to Cruelty — Allegations made by Wife against Husband in application are unfounded, baseless and false […]
Court: Gauhati High Court Bench: JUSTICE B.P. Katakey, P.K. Saikia Smt. Bichitra Bharali Kalita Vs. Dipak Chandra Kalita on 12 March 2014 Law Point: Wife lodged false criminal proceeding and threatened to commit suicide. Levelling such serious allegations, in absence of any proof thereof, itself amounts to cruelty. Divorce granted on the ground of cruelty. […]
Court: Allahabad High Court Bench: JUSTICE Rajiv Sharma and Mahendra Daya Archana Sharma Vs. Mukesh Kumar Sharma On 22 September 2014 Law Point: Divorce on ground of cruelty – Appeal – Cruelty includes not only physical cruelty but also mental cruelty. Sufficient material on record to prove that wife had treated husband with mental cruelty […]
Court: Andhra Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE Motilal B. Naik & V. Bhaskara Rao Smt. S. Vijayalakshmi Vs. S. Bheem Reddy On 16 March 1998 Law Point: On complaint lodged by wife, husband arrested and sent to judicial custody — Kept under suspension by his employer — Matter reached point of no return — Any […]
Court: Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench: JUSTICE D.M. Dharmadhikari Pushpa Datt Mishra vs. Smt. Archana Mishra alias Premvati Choubey On 08 May 1991 Law Point: Reckless allegation of wife in her pleadings and in her testimony before Court alleging adultery against husband furnishes a ground to grant a decree of divorce in favour of husband […]
Court: Uttarakhand High Court Bench: JUSTICE Prafulla C. Pant & Sudhanshu Dhulia Anandi Devi Vs. Komal Kumar On 2 December 2010 Law Point: Wife made no attempt to come back to her husband’s house nor tried to contact him over phone — Husband has sufficiently proved on record that he was subjected to cruelty by […]
Delhi High Court JUSTICE Najmi Waziri Mrs. Anil Singh vs Dr. Narender Singh On 21 August 2014 Law Point: Allegations of adultery – Burden of Proof – Allegations of adultery made by wife. Allegations of adultery have a consequence of damaging one’s reputation, taking away the dignity of that person in the eyes of his […]