The Supreme Court quashed FIRs against a husband's in-laws and sister in a dowry harassment case. While the wife alleged they were aware of...

The Madras High Court upheld the dismissal of a government employee due to a matrimonial dispute, classifying it as misconduct under Tamil ...

The Allahabad High Court has stated that Muslim men can marry more than once if they treat all wives equally, as per Islamic law. This ruli...

The court also relied on the section 7 of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, which provides that a Hindu marriage may be solemnized in accordance wi...

The Delhi High Court has rejected two petitions challenging the Muslim husband's authority to pronounce divorce (talaq-ul-sunnat) without r...

While polygamy allows a Muslim man to have four wives, 'nikah halala' is a process under which a divorced Muslim woman has to first marry a...

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla directed the respondents to file their response and issued notice on ...

The bill has added a new disincentive for those who will breach the two-child norm — they will be made ineligible for being nominated or ap...

The apex court issued notice to the Centre on the petition filed by one Farjana and tagged the matter along with a batch of petitions to be...

A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the submissions of senior advocate ...

The Centre, however, had opposed the plea saying Canon law cannot be allowed to override Indian Christian Marriage Act, 1872 and Divorce Ac...

This was a part of the detailed three-page note that the law ministry had submitted to the PMO on July 1, the day when it first became publ...

Central Information Commission has directed disclosure of views of two professors of National Law University on their purported live-in rel...

Court recommended amendment of Muslim personal law saying that in this day and age, the practice of polygamy is often driven by selfish mot...

Expressing concern over growing influence of religion on social issues, the SC wondered how long India would remain a secular country but b...

Polygamy is being practised on an enormous scale among Britain's Muslims with a large number of women being denied basic legal rights, a ne...

In a dramatic turn to relations between Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt and his friend Manyata, the couple has told a court here that they are ...