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Breach of timelines by government hurts ‘judicial conscience’: Delhi High Court

Source – financialexpress.com Tax-payers’ money is “going down the drain” as the authorities are squandering it by delaying development projects, the Delhi High Court has said, terming it as “a very sorry state of affairs”. The sharp observations came when a high court bench was informed that the BJP-run Municipal Corporation of Delhi was yet to complete the construction

Mumbai family court denies maintenance under HMA 24 to MBA qualified HR professional wife

It is getting more common that working women (even if prior to filing maintenance application) are getting their applications for maintenance dismissed by courts.  Below is a case where such maintenance application under Section 24 of Hindu Marriage Act (for maintenance pendente lite or interim maintenance) was denied. Don’t misuse law to claim alimony, Court

Weird reasons cited by couples for divorce

Last week, a Noida woman filed a complaint against her husband after he sent her a talaq over email for being “too dark-skinned”. The 26-year-old research assistant at a city-based pharma company said that her husband had humiliated her for the colour of her skin right from day one, and that he had always emphasized his

Post-honeymoon divorce syndrome hits Delhi

First comes marriage, then the honeymoon… then divorce? Delhi’s counsellors and lawyers say that couples wanting to get separated right after their honeymoon is increasingly common today.Earlier this month, a Lucknow-based couple went to Goa on honeymoon. On the flight back home, the husband got so angry after the argument, that he quietly got off

India’s Rs 1 lakh crore bail scam

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

Slapped with 498A, men put up fight

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