Category: 498a

Source:-https://www.barandbench.com The Karnataka High Court has recently ruled that family members named in matrimonial mattes without allegations of active involvement cannot be proceeded against for harassment on “casual reference”. A single-judge Bench of Justice Ashok G Nijahannavar took exception to the general tendency to involve all family members of a household in a matrimonial dispute.

Source:- freepressjournal.in The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) moved the Supreme Court on Monday seeking impleadment in petitions challenging constitutional validity of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ practised among Muslims. The apex court has already dealt with the issue of these practices in its verdict of 1997 in which it had declined to entertain

Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court has summoned Home Secretary Niranjan Mardi to explain the delay in releasing five life convicts despite specific orders passed by a Division Bench of the court between December 7, 2018 and January 25 to release them forthwith by according the benefit of premature release granted to many other

Source: indiatoday.in Noting that the slogan ‘Beti Bachao and Beti Padhao’ (save and educate girl child) alone cannot save girl child, a Delhi court has sentenced the father and grandmother of a deceased toddler, who was found severely malnourished, to six months jail term for failing to take proper care of her. The court said

Source: hindustantimes.com Arguing on the framing of charges against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in connection with the death of his wife, Sunanda Pushkar, the Delhi police told a city court on Tuesday that Pushkar’s body had 15 injury marks. These injuries were caused by the blunt force produced in a scuffle, police alleged. Pushkar was

Source: afternoonvoice.com Expressing concern over the misuse of the anti-dowry law by “disgruntled” wives against her husbands and in-laws, the Supreme Court ruled that police cannot arrest accused in such cases “automatically” and it must give reasons for taking such steps which would be judicially examined. In the recent past, many innocent men and their

Source: afternoonvoice.com The Supreme Court in the recent past proclaimed that the false complaints under Section 498A of Indian Penal Code against innocent were increasingly making the husband a victim. The Supreme Court also said that women were increasingly using the anti-dowry law to harass and create pressure against the husband and his relatives on mere lodging of a complaint. Citing

Source: barandbench.com The Supreme Court reaffirmed that wilful conduct that drives a wife to commit suicide or demand for dowry, both could attract conviction under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The Supreme Court observed, “Conviction under Section 498A IPC is for subjecting a woman to cruelty. Cruelty is explained as any wilful

Source:- edtimes.in Egalitarianism, a political ideology hinged on the belief that everyone is equal, forms the nucleus of feminism. In wake of the recent rise of feminist thought, one may wonder – has the Indian Constitution failed to safeguard men’s rights? Imagine this: What if you were convicted of a crime you never committed? Taking legal

Source:-livelaw.in In this case, three Judge bench comprising CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul considered the following question: “Whether in a case where cruelty had been committed in a matrimonial home by the husband or the relatives of the husband and the wife leaves the matrimonial home and takes