Madras High Court grants divorce to CRPF constable, holding that adultery can be proved through circumstantial evidence.
Read Full ArticleRajasthan High Court grants divorce, condemns atta-satta custom as “gender coercion and familial extortion disguised as custom.”
Allahabad High Court denied interim maintenance to a doctor-wife earning ₹31 lakh annually, holding voluntary unemployment cannot burden husband.
Supreme Court holds consent in divorce settlement cannot be withdrawn after compliance, quashes DV case, and dissolves marriage under Article 142.
Supreme Court holds US divorce on irretrievable breakdown not enforceable in India; grants divorce under Article 142 after 18-year separation.
Supreme Court dissolves marriage under Article 142, granting mutual consent divorce and commending the wife for waiving alimony and returning gold.
Mutual divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act is valid when marriage is performed with Hindu rites, the Madras High Court rules, even if the wife was Muslim by birth.
Gujarat High Court hears a divorce appeal where the husband alleges mental cruelty, claiming his wife’s obsession with stray dogs made marital life insupportable.
Supreme Court grants divorce citing irretrievable breakdown after 15 years of separation; orders ₹1 crore alimony, says no purpose in prolonging dead marriage.
MP High Court dissolves marriage, holding wife’s false alcoholism allegations against husband amounted to mental cruelty and justified divorce.
Delhi HC upholds divorce on cruelty grounds, denies alimony to IRTS officer wife, ruling that alimony is for need-based justice, not enrichment.
MP High Court grants divorce, holding that false allegations of immoral conduct against a spouse cause mental agony and amount to cruelty in marriage.
SC says funding daughter’s marriage is a father’s duty; directs man to pay ₹10 lakh while upholding divorce after long separation.
SC dissolves marriage invoking Article 142 after dispute over 1951 Rolls Royce; man agrees to pay ₹2.25 cr in mediated settlement.
Delhi HC rules husband’s increased income and rising living costs justify higher maintenance for wife, enhancing it from ₹10,000 to ₹14,000.
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