Family Law News Top Law News Mother of four alleges husband gave her ‘talaq’ over phone January 11, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 36-year-old woman in Manjhanpur Kotwali area here has alleged that her husband divorced her over phone, police said today. Rozi Begum, a mother of four, had left for her parents’ house some time ago without informing anyone because of continued discord with her husband Sohrab. She returned on Saturday to find that her husband […] Read more » featured talaq
Criminal Law News Family Law News Top Law News Dowry death : HC sends husband, father-in-law in Tihar jail September 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man and his father have been sentenced to varying jail terms of life imprisonment and 10 years by the Delhi High Court in the dowry death case of his wife, who ended her life after consuming pesticide. The high court upheld the conviction and sentence of the father-son duo, who were held guilty of […] Read more » cruelly dowry death featured harassing harassing and cruelly treating the woman for dowry Tihar Jail
Criminal Law News Family Law News Top Law News HC seeks govt reply on plea to fast-track child custody cases September 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has sought the Centre’s response on a PIL seeking direction to formulate guidelines for expeditiously resolving issues of custody and maintenance concerning minors arising from the now rampant practice of “inter-parental child abduction”. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar has issued notice to the […] Read more » Art of Learning Foundation child custody child custody cases fast-track child custody cases featured HC PIL
Family Law News Top Law News Soundarya files divorce petition in family court December 23, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Superstar Rajinikanth’s younger daughter Soundarya today filed a divorce petition in a family court here. Soundarya and Ashwin Ramkumar tied the knot at a grand wedding ceremony in 2010 which was attended by the who’s who of the film, politics, and business world. They have a one-year-old son, Ved. Claiming difference of opinion between them, […] Read more » Court family court featured Law Legal News Soundarya files divorce petition
Family Law News High Profile Cases Malaika, Arbaaz attend counselling session after filing for December 1, 2016 / December 1, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Bollywood actress Malaika Arora Khan and Arbaaz Khan attended their first counselling session after filing for divorce by mutual consent. The couple filed for divorce last month and attended the first mandatory counselling session on November 29 in Bandra Family Court. According to family court sources, on Tuesday they were given counselling in the family […] Read more » Arbaaz Khan Bandra Family Court Court divorce featured Law Legal News Malaika
Consumer Law News Family Law News Top Law News HC dismisses Muslim woman’s appeal against divorce November 1, 2016 / November 1, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court has dismissed an appeal by a woman seeking to set aside the “forged” ‘khula’ produced by her husband on the basis of which a cleric granted a fatwa dissolving the marriage. S Basheria submitted she was married to T C A Mohamed Yusuf, a beef merchant on August 20, 1987 as […] Read more » appeal against divorce divorce featured HC Madras High Court Muslim woman's appeal Muslim woman's appeal against divorce dismissed
Family Law News Top Law News Man jailed for 10 yrs for raping & threatening woman October 31, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for raping a woman and threatening her, with a Delhi court rejecting his claim that it was an extra-marital affair. The court convicted Delhi resident Joginder Yadav while relying on the woman’s sole testimony. “I am of the opinion that prosecution has proved its case […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Shail Jain Delhi resident Joginder Yadav featured
Family Law News Court grants 2-day interim bail to officer after kin’s suicide July 20, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A special court today granted two-day interim bail to graft accused Director General Corporate Affairs B K Bansal to attend the last rites of his wife and daughter, who allegedly committed suicide. Special CBI Judge Gurdeep Singh granted the relief to Bansal till July 22 and said that after yesterday’s incident (of suicide), its time […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Special court suicide
Consumer Law News Family Law News Top Law News Farmer on leased land after expiry period can’t be evicted: SC July 10, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that a farmer, who is in possession of leased land even after expiry of the lease period, cannot be evicted if the owner either acknowledges the tenancy or is accepting the rent. Referring to a provision of the Transfer of Property Act, a three-judge bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi […] Read more » featured Justice Arun Mishra Justice P C Pant Justice Ranjan Gogoi leased land Punjab Security of Land Tenure Act) of 1953 Punjab Tenancy Act 1887 Transfer of Property Act
Family Law News Top Law News Child marriage will not automatically become void: Madras HC March 6, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court in Madurai has held that a wedding between minor girl and boy will not become void automatically without either of them obtaining a decree of divorce from family court within two years of their attaining the legal age for marriage. A division bench here comprising justices S Manikumar and C T Selvam […] Read more » child marriage Child marriage will not automatically become void featured Justice C.T.Selvam Justice S Manikumar Madras HC
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Family Law News Top Law News Laws to protect women being misused: court February 5, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Laws meant to protect women are being “blatantly abused and misused” to silence in-laws, a Delhi court has observed and made it clear that the judiciary would effectively prevent such “illegal conduct”. The court made the observations while granting relief of possession of property to a 70-year-old widowed woman who has accused her estranged daughter-in-law […] Read more » Additional District Judge Kamini Lau Court featured Laws to protect women being misused
Family Law News Top Law News Husband, In-laws Held Guilty of Dowry Harassment December 27, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man, along with his sister and parents, has been found guilty of physically and mentally torturing his wife for dowry by a Delhi court which relied on the sole testimony of the victim, saying it remained “unscathed and unimpeached”. Metropolitan Magistrate Vandana, who sentenced the man to six months in jail while observing that […] Read more » featured husband Husband Held Guilty of Dowry Harassment In-laws Held Guilty of Dowry Harassment Metropolitan Magistrate Vandana
