Prayagraj (UP), April 8 The Allahabad High Court has observed that a wife and her relatives cannot be held liable for abetting her husband's suicide merely because they filed cases against him over a matrimonial dispute.Justice Sameer Jain, allowing the petition of wife Megha Kirti, said that...
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New Delhi, April 8 Describing a decade-long dispute between estranged spouses as "a matrimonial battle of Mahabharata," the Supreme Court has provided a "final resolution" to the bitter legal conflict and annulled the marriage.Observing that the marriage was "dead for all practical purposes,"...
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New Delhi, April 1 A Delhi court has discharged a woman accused of using forged documents to apply for her son's passport, holding that the act does not contain the essential elements of the offense charged. It has also cautioned against framing criminal charges in court to settle scores in a...
Nainital, February 11 The Uttarakhand High Court quashed criminal proceedings related to a matrimonial dispute following divorce and remarriage.A single bench headed by Justice Alok Mehra quashed all pending proceedings before the first class judicial magistrate of Dehradun, including the...
New Delhi, February 11 The Supreme Court referred a Muslim woman's plea challenging the validity of "Talaq-e-Hasan" given by her husband to mediation on Wednesday.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi appointed former apex court judge Justice Kurian Joseph as...