China moves to regulate digital humans, bans addictive services for childrenThe draft regulations would also ban the use of other people's personal information to create digital humans without consent, or using virt...
03 Apr, 2026, 11.43 PM IST
Suicide threats by wife can be ground for divorce, amount to mental cruelty: HCThe Chhattisgarh High Court ruled that a wife's repeated suicide threats and pressure on her husband to convert religion constitute mental ...
06 Dec, 2025, 01.48 PM IST
Wife tears alone doesn't amount to cruelty, rules Bombay HC, quashes 498A case against husband and his parentsThe Bombay High Court has made a pivotal judgment by reversing the conviction of a man and his parents charged with cruelty under Section 4...
24 Nov, 2025, 01.20 PM IST
Beaten like dog, thrown out when pregnant: Kerala woman kills baby, dies by suicide; chilling note details sexual abuse by father-in-lawKerala Woman Dowry Death: Vipanchika Mani, a 33-year-old Kerala woman, and her daughter were tragically found dead in their Sharjah apartme...
16 Jul, 2025, 03.46 PM IST
HC: Forced unnatural sex with wife amounts to cruelty under IPC 498A, the section known for dowry casesThe Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled on a case of unnatural sex within marriage. The court stated that forcing unnatural sex on a wife, alon...
30 May, 2025, 04.17 PM IST
Threatening or attempting suicide is cruelty, ground for divorce: Bombay HCThe Bombay High Court has upheld a family court decree granting a man a divorce on grounds of cruelty. The man alleged his wife threatened ...
27 Mar, 2025, 02.42 PM IST
Amid Atul Subhash row, SC says mere harassment not sufficient to find accused guilty of abetting suicideThe Supreme Court emphasized that mere harassment isn't enough for abetment of suicide; direct or indirect incitement must be proven. The c...
12 Dec, 2024, 03.06 PM IST
Household chores, going to work not cruelty, but are part of responsibilities of wife, says Mumbai courtWhile hearing the case, the court observed that waking up at 4 am for household chores, then going to work and returning home and doing mor...
12 Sep, 2022, 01.23 PM IST
Sunanda Pushkar death case: Delhi court reserves order on Shashi Tharoor's anticipatory bail pleaSpecial Judge Arvind Kumar reserved the judgment after the Delhi Police opposed Tharoor's anticipatory bail plea, saying he might flee the ...
04 Jul, 2018, 02.19 PM IST
Shashi Tharoor files plea for anticipatory bail in Sunanda Pushkar death caseTharoor has dubbed the charges as "preposterous and baseless" and the product of a malicious and vindictive campaign against him
03 Jul, 2018, 01.33 PM IST
Shashi Tharoor to face trial in Sunanda Pushkar death caseThe Delhi Police had on May 14 accused the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram, of abetting Pushkar's suicide.
05 Jun, 2018, 05.23 PM IST
Sunanda Pushkar death: Court reserves order on whether to summon Shashi Tharoor as accusedAdditional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal said he would pass the order after the counsel for prosecution said there was enough ...
28 May, 2018, 11.28 PM IST
I have no desire to live, reads Sunanda Pushkar's e-mail to Shashi Tharoor: Police tells courtSunanda, the wife of Congress veteran Shashi Tharoor, was found dead in the suite of a luxury hotel in south Delhi on the night of January ...
28 May, 2018, 09.21 PM IST
Sunanda Pushkar death case transferred to designated courtMetropolitan Magistrate Dharmendra Singh transferred the case to Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal, who will take up th...
24 May, 2018, 03.32 PM IST
Charge sheet based on medico-legal, forensic evidence: Delhi Police on PushkarTharoor is the only person who has been arrayed as an accused in the case. The police, in its charge sheet, has also alleged that Tharoor h...
14 May, 2018, 04.57 PM IST
- Deterrent punishment required to curb crime against women: Supreme Court
A bench of justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi said that crime against women has increased despite stringent legislation to prevent othe...
04 Jan, 2013, 08.28 PM IST
- Keeping a mistress inflicts mental cruelty on wife: Bombay HC
Sixteen years after a young Chandrakala committed suicide, Justice AR Joshi upheld the six month jail term awarded to her husband Ratan Jag...
25 May, 2011, 03.16 AM IST