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JUDICIAL OBSERVATIONS ON CRUELTY
'Normal marital wear and tear' not cruelty: Maharashtra court acquits 3 in dowry, suicide abetment caseA Thane court has acquitted a husband and his parents in a dowry harassment and abetment to suicide case. The judge ruled that "normal wear...- Despite getting Rs 20 lakh alimony in divorce settlement, wife continues criminal cases against husband, in-laws; HC quashes case as abuse of processA woman received Rs 20 lakh in permanent alimony as part of a divorce settlement. Despite agreeing to withdraw all cases, she continued cri...
- Wife filed criminal case against brother-in-law alleging that her veins burst due to harassment for dowry; SC says allegations are vague and cancels 498A criminal caseThe Supreme Court quashed a dowry harassment case against a brother-in-law, deeming the allegations vague. The wife's FIR, alleging her vei...
- Wife filed criminal cases against husband’s parents under Section 498A for instigating their son to demand dowry from her; she lost case in SC for this reasonSection 498A: The Supreme Court has provided relief to a husband's parents. A wife filed criminal cases under Section 498A of the IPC alleg...
- Financial control by husband alone doesn't amount to cruelty: Supreme Court quashes 498A caseThe Supreme Court granted relief to a husband from a 498A case filed by his wife. The court ruled that the husband's financial dominance, i...
- Wife files 498A case against in-laws alleging they are provoking husband to torture her; loses case in Gujarat HC for this reasonThe Gujarat High Court quashed a Section 498A case against a husband's parents, citing vague allegations of them provoking their son to inf...
- Prolonged matrimonial legal fight can only lead to marriage in paper, says Supreme Court, ends 22-year long divorce fight in husband’s favourAfter a 22 years long fight an Indian husband has got relief from his marriage when the Supreme Court of India gave him divorce. Prolonged ...
- Denial of marital intimacy and alienating child amounts to mental cruelty, says Delhi High Court and grants divorce to husbandMental Cruelty: Wife denied physical relations to husband, pressured him to transfer property in her name; Delhi High Court grants divorce ...
- Mental cruelty: Know how a husband won a divorce battle in High Court as wife mocked his physical infirmity; Permanent alimony amount to be decidedIn 2025, the Odisha High Court validated a divorce decree, affirming that a wife's demeaning remarks about her husband's physical disabilit...
- 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...
- Benglauru Chamarajpet: Man arrested for allegedly cutting off udders of three cows in BengaluruTension escalated in Bengaluru's Chamarajapet due to an attack on three cows. Residents, activists, and BJP workers protested. The police a...
- Not allowing mother to meet child amounts to cruelty and harassment, says High CourtThe Bombay High Court upheld an FIR against a woman's in-laws for denying her access to her four-year-old daughter. The court deemed this '...
- Courts must exercise caution in dowry cases to prevent misuse of law: SCThe Supreme Court urged caution in dowry harassment cases to prevent misuse of the law against innocent family members. Observing a rising ...
- Calling spouse 'bhoot', 'pishach' not cruelty: Patna HCThe case was later transferred to Nalanda from Nawada upon a prayer by the father-son duo, who ended up being slapped with rigorous impriso...
- Order of acquittal ought not be interfered with lightly, says SCA bench of justices U U Lalit and S R Bhat set aside the March 2019 judgement of the Madras High Court which had restored the order convict...
- Taking custody of bride's jewellery for safety not cruelty under Section 498A of IPCTaking custody of daughter-in-law's jewellery for safety cannot constitute cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, the Supreme...
- Court has to evaluate seriousness of offence while granting bail to accused: Supreme CourtA bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud made the observation while setting aside an Allahabad high court order which granted bail to a ma...
- View: Is ban on Jallikattu a case of misplaced activism?NGOs and rights activists have asserted that bulls are 'tortured' and have drawn comparisons with Spanish bull-fighting, this is far from r...
- Domestic violence case: AAP MLA Somnath Bharti sent to jail till tomorrowDuty Magistrate Sudhir Kumar Sirohi remanded Bharti to judicial custody till tomorrow after the investigating agency did not seek his furth...
- No divorce for "irretrievable breakdown" of marriage: SCIrretrievable breakdown of marriage doesn't account for divorce, says SC.
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