Jharkhand High Court upholds Family Court’s refusal to grant divorce, holding that allegations of a wife talking to a male friend based on gender stereotypes amount to cruelty towards her.
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Karnataka High Court sets aside ₹20,000 monthly maintenance awarded to an employed wife, holding that financial independence and ability to maintain herself are key under Section 144 BNSS.
Allahabad High Court cites the Supreme Court’s ruling in Anju Garg and Chapter XI, Verse 10 of Manusmriti while emphasising a husband’s duty to maintain his wife and minor children.
Supreme Court refuses to quash bigamy proceedings against a man who remarried after obtaining a UK divorce decree, but quashes the case against his parents and second wife.
Supreme Court quashes FIR under Sections 304B, 498A IPC and Dowry Prohibition Act against husband, finding dowry allegations vague and unsupported after wife's suicide in Canada.
Supreme Court discharges man, holding that a failed consensual relationship cannot retrospectively turn past intimacy into rape.
Jharkhand HC dissolves a marriage citing physical cruelty, alleged infidelity and prolonged separation since 2019.
Bombay High Court grants bail in a POCSO case, citing material contradictions and improvements in statements while clarifying that the trial will decide the merits.
Chhattisgarh HC rules that acquittal under Section 498A IPC alone does not prove cruelty by a wife and dismisses husband’s divorce appeal.
The Supreme Court directed a mother to return her US-citizen daughter to the USA, holding that child welfare prevails over foreign court orders in custody disputes.
The Madras High Court upheld ₹10,000 monthly interim maintenance and directed Tamil Nadu district judges to collect data on matrimonial disputes involving 2020–2022 marriages.
The Delhi High Court dismisses a retired teacher’s plea for interim maintenance under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, holding that retirement corpus cannot be treated as monthly income, though...
The Kerala High Court upheld ₹10,000 monthly maintenance, holding that the husband's 70% disability was irrelevant as he had means but concealed his income.
The Kerala High Court held that suppressing a live-in relationship and child while fixing marriage can constitute “deceitful means” under Section 69 BNS and attract the Section 18 SC/ST Act bar.
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