Category: 498a

Source:- livelaw.in Madhya Pradesh High Court has recently held that in a prosecution under S.498A IPC (Matrimonial Cruelty) the case of the near and distant relatives of the husband stands on a different footing than that of the husband and parents-in-law. Justice GS Ahluwalia also held that in order to prosecute the other relatives, there

Source – caravanalive.com Protestors from 20 different cities of India held a protest a ‘satyagraha for men’ to mount pressure on government and bring gender neutral laws. A 90 year old lady named Birma Devi is one of the those who called for the ‘satyagraha for men’ in a protest demanding gender-neutral laws and a

Source – firstpost.com The judiciary isn’t quite helping the cause of women’s rights in India. On 31 July, the Delhi High Court, while upholding the acquittal of a government employee in a rape case, remarked that “women use law as weapon for vengeance and personal vendetta and tend to convert consensual physical relations as an incident of

Source – firstpost.com A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court issued a revolting directive around domestic violence and cruelty under Section 498A, ordering that such cases be verified and validated by a yet-to-be constituted “family welfare committee” before charges are pressed under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against the husband and his relatives. Next is a

Source:- hindustantimes.com A day after the Supreme Court termed triple talaq as unconstitutional, a woman lodged an FIR against her husband, who had divorced her through triple talaq in a panchayat on Tuesday The woman also filed a case against her six in-laws on Wednesday. Arshinida of Kamra Nawabkhan locality of Sardhana town lodged a

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Given the ease with which a case can be filed in India, especially against men, what does one do, when faced with a false criminal case and the police is hounding an innocent? Naturally, the person would apply for anticipatory bail and thus approach courts. However, when the very courts use the process of bail

Tuesday was a big day for Vinay, a young techie from the city. After all, he’d won a long legal battle -charges of cruelty slapped against him by his wife were proved false. Vinay had quit his job to prove his innocence in the two-year-old case. The FIR against him will be quashed soon. “I didn’t

Over 50 volunteers stormed the streets of Thane and Mumbai to raise awareness on Anti-Dowry Day, as they informed the people about the controversial section 498A of the Indian Penal Code and Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. With cases in India pending in large numbers, the men and women activists are demanding quick redressal of such

“the averments against the accused other than her husband and father-in-law were omnibus in nature and no specific role in this regard has been ascribed to any of them nor time and date of the assault has been given”. Quashing a crime registered under section 498-A read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code