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Wife’s MBA degree or past employment with MNCs can’t stop her from demanding maintenance, rules HCAn Allahabad High Court ruling states a wife's education or earning potential does not disqualify her from maintenance. The court considere...- Twisha Sharma Death Case: CBI seeks five-day remand for Giribala; asks for five-day custody extension for Samarth SinghTwisha Sharma Death Case: The CBI has requested a five-day remand for Twisha Sharma's mother-in-law, Giribala Singh, and an extension for a...
- Twisha Sharma death: Police followed due process, handed probe to CBI on family's request, says DGPMadhya Pradesh DGP Kailash Makwana stated police followed procedures in the Twisha Sharma case. He confirmed the state recommended a CBI pr...
- Bengaluru cop’s wife found dead: Family alleges dowry harassment after 26-year-old sent phone password before deathA 26-year-old woman, Lakshmi Priya, died under suspicious circumstances in Bengaluru's KR Pura police quarters. Her family alleges continuo...
- Twisha Sharma death case: Cops yet to reach out to me for recording my statement, says mom-in-lawFormer judge Giribala Singh is booked in a dowry death case. She states police have not contacted her for a statement. Singh cites a chaoti...
- Second marriage & dowry harassment: SC quashes FIR against in-laws, keeps 498A case against husbandThe 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...
- Bengaluru, India's IT capital, has highest dowry-related cases among metro cities: NCRB reportBengaluru leads metropolitan cities in dowry-related cases with 878 incidents reported in 2024, accounting for 87% of metro cases. Delhi, h...
- Rs 20 lakh, land dowry demands trigger assault in UP; retired railway staffer arrestedA retired railway employee in Kanpur allegedly assaulted his daughter-in-law over dowry demands, with the incident captured on a viral vide...
- Husband gets six months’ jail in Section 498A case; Kerala HC says abuse behind closed doors needs no independent witnessesA husband has been jailed for six months in Kerala for harassing his wife under Section 498A. The Kerala High Court ruled that testimony fr...
- Word spreads faster than wind about daughter-in-law being harassed for dowry: SCThe Supreme Court acquitted a woman accused of dowry harassment, overturning the conviction affirmed by the Uttarakhand High Court. Justice...
- 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...
- 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...
- Husband gets relief in gruelling cases of section 498A, Dowry Act and SC/ST Act from Supreme Court after 5-year fightFalse 498A: A husband wins false Section 498A, SC/ST Atrocity and dowry case filed by wife for personal vendetta 5 years ago. The wife even...
- Trial courts repeatedly making same mistakes in dowry death cases: SCThe Supreme Court acquitted a man convicted of cruelty and causing dowry death of his wife due to lack of specific evidence of cruelty or h...
- Man drags wife and in-laws for giving him a 'dowry without a demand'While husbands are frequently taken to court over accusations of dowry demands, one man has turned the tables by accusing his wife’s family...
- 35 years on, Supreme Court plugs gap that aided dowry death accusedWriting the judgment, CJI Ramana noted the disturbing trend of dowry deaths accounting for 40-50% of homicidal death of women in India and ...
- Presumption in dowry death to be backed by cruelty proof: Supreme CourtThe provision to secure convictions in dowry death cases was inserted in the Evidence Act, which provides that instead of presumption of in...
- Live-link between harassment & death needed for proving dowry deaths: Supreme CourtThere must be a "proximate" and "live link" between the dowry harassment of a woman and her unnatural death to establish that the offence w...
- 24,771 dowry deaths reported in last 3 yrs: GovernmentA total of 24,771 dowry deaths have been reported in the country in past three years with maximum of them occurring in Uttar Pradesh with 7...
- Crimes against women up in 6 Northeastern states; Assam tops listAssam also recorded the highest incidence of 8,636 cases of cruelty by husband towards women, which was up from 6,407 the previous year.
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