Andhra Pradesh HC rules taunting for not conceiving isn’t cruelty under IPC 498A; quashes case against sisters-in-law living separately.
Read Full ArticleSC 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.
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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.
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