MP High Court grants divorce, holding that false allegations of immoral conduct against a spouse cause mental agony and amount to cruelty in marriage.
Read Full ArticleAndhra Pradesh HC rules taunting for not conceiving isn’t cruelty under IPC 498A; quashes case against sisters-in-law living separately.
SC clarifies that dowry demand isn’t essential to prove cruelty under Section 498A IPC, reinstating criminal proceedings in a key matrimonial dispute case.
Allahabad HC rules that a wife's failure to care for in-laws is not cruelty when the husband lives separately, dismissing a divorce appeal by the husband.
Bombay HC upholds FIR in domestic violence case, noting peculiar and sadistic ill-treatment via video call by sisters-in-law.
Kerala High Court grants divorce to a woman in a decade-long loveless marriage, highlighting the evolving concept of matrimonial cruelty.
Omar Abdullah seeks SC intervention to dissolve his 30-year marriage with Payal Abdullah, citing 15 years of separation and a "dead" marriage.
A person who is not a family member can't be implicated under S. 498A IPC, the Karnataka HC said.
The High Court said that comments regarding wife's cooking by in-laws will not come under S. 498 A [cruelty] of IPC.
Subjecting a wife to sexual perversions against her will and consent amounts to mental as well as physical cruelty, the Kerala High Court held recently.
The Calcutta High Court recently reiterated that an allegation of mental illness of a spouses mother per se would not constitute an act of mental cruelty.
Karnataka HC rules passport details of accused are personal and exempt from disclosure under RTI, allowing access only through court process in cheque-bounce case.
30 October, 2025 01:45 PM
SC mulls pan-India guidelines to curb delays in framing charges; notes cases where charges aren’t framed even after years despite BNSS mandate of 60 days.
30 October, 2025 12:22 PM
Kerala HC clarifies that for continuous breach of contract, limitation under Article 55 starts when breach ceases; once contract ends, breach cannot continue.
30 October, 2025 01:37 PM
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