Court, Judiciary & Legal System Family Law News Wife’s Pub Visits No Ground For Seeking Divorce: Bombay High Court January 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has refused to grant divorce on the ground of cruelty to a man who alleged his wife often went to pubs leaving their child in the care of domestic help and also often insulted him and his parents. A Division Bench of Justices Vijaya Tahilramani and Anil Menon recently upheld an […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice Vijaya Tahilramani Justice Anil Menon Wife's Pub Visits No Ground For Seeking Divorce
Family Law News Court concerned over rise in cases of crime against women January 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has expressed concern over increasing cases of crime against women in the city while sending an auto driver to jail for 18 months for molesting and threatening a woman, saying it was a serious matter that females are not safe on roads even from auto drivers. Metropolitan Magistrate Ekta Gauba awarded the […] Read more » benefit of Probation of Offenders Act1958 Crime against women Metropolitan Magistrate Ekta Gauba
Family Law News Husband can’t deny wife maintenance saying that she can earn: Court January 7, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has asked a man to pay Rs 25,000 as interim maintenance per month to his wife saying that a husband cannot shirk his liability to maintain his wife on the pretext that she is qualified and competent enough to earn.Metropolitan Magistrate Mona Tardi Kerketta asked a Delhi based doctor to pay Rs […] Read more » Domestic Violence Act' Husband can't deny wife maintenance wife maintenance
Family Law News No law for father-in-law to maintain daughter-in-law: court January 7, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has dismissed the plea of a widow seeking interim maintenance from her father-in -law in a domestic violence case, saying no law provides that he has to maintain his daughter-in-law and grand children irrespective of the fact whether he earns or not. Metropolitan Magistrate Shilpi Jain refused to grant the interim monetary […] Read more » Court maintain daughter-in-law Metropolitan Magistrate Shilpi Jain No law for father-in-law
Family Law News Daughter-in-law has no right in parents-in-law’s property : Delhi Court January 5, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Daughter-in-law has no right in parents-in-law’s property : Delhi Court A Delhi court has denied a woman the right to reside in a house owned by her father-in-law, saying she has no right in a property which exclusively belongs to her parents-in-law. While setting aside the order of a magisterial court, Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala allowed the appeal filed by the woman’s parents-in-law, saying […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala Daughter-in-law has no right in parents-in-law's property Delhi court domestic violence case Mahila Court order right to reside in a house owned by her father-in-law
Family Law News HC stays order asking Adnan Sami to give flat and money to ex-wife January 1, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In an interim relief to Pakistani singer Adnan Sami, the has stayed a family court order which had asked him to pay Rs 6.24 crore compensation to his former wife Sabah Galadari and also give her duplex flat in Andheri occupied by him and his present wife Roya Farabi. Hearing an appeal filed by the […] Read more » Adnan Sami former wife Sabah Galadari Bombay High Court Justice Anil Menon Justice V. K. Tahilramani Sabah Galadari Sami to pay Rs 6.5 crore to ex wife
Family Law News BJP govt put onus on Opposition for re-conversion law December 22, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As a controversy over forced religious conversions by some Sangh Parivar outfits raged, the BJP and the government on Sunday put the onus on the Opposition parties for bringing an anti-conversion law for which they were ready. BJP president Amit Shah said the government is ready to bring an anti-conversion law and dared the “so-called […] Read more » Amit Shah BJP faith conversion Mohan Bhagwat re-conversion law reconversion to Hinduism Venkaiah Naidu
Family Law News Bombay High Court asks Thackeray brothers to settle will dispute amicably December 13, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court on Friday asked Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray and his estranged brother Jaidev to amicably settle the dispute over the will left by their father, Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray. Bal Thackeray, who passed away in November 2012, bequeathed a major share in the family estate to Uddhav while cutting out […] Read more » Advocate F D’souza Bombay High Court Jaidev's lawyer Seema Sarnaik Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray Thackeray brothers to settle will dispute
Family Law News Not allowing woman to enter kitchen isn’t cruelty: Delhi court December 13, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has discharged the sister-in-law of a woman of dowry harassment charge, saying the allegations of being “rough and rude” and “not allowing her to enter kitchen” do not amount to cruelty. District and Sessions Judge Ina Malhotra upheld the magisterial court’s order that had charged the woman’s husband and his parents for […] Read more » District and Sessions Judge Ina Malhotra Not allowing woman to enter kitchen
Family Law News No order on custody of child cared by maid servants December 8, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court has refused to pass any order on giving custody of a seven-year-old child to either of his estranged parents while observing that the child is ultimately taken care of my maid servants. However, the court has ordered the father to pay Rs 20,000 every month to the boy’s mother for his expenses […] Read more » child cared by maid servants custody of child cared by maid servants section 38 of the Special Marriage Act 1954 Special Marriage Act 1954 Thane Principal District Judge R R Gandhi
Family Law News Court tells man to sell assets to maintain wife December 6, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has asked a man, who claimed to be unemployed, to either get a job or dispose off his assets to maintain his estranged wife. Additional Sessions Judge Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj dismissed the plea of the man against the trial court order that had directed him to pay Rs 15,000 per month as […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj sell assets to maintain wife
Criminal Law News Family Law News Married man held guilty of raping woman on marriage pretext December 6, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has held a married man guilty of raping a woman, saying that he took her consent to establish physical relations by presenting himself as a bachelor and promising to marry her. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat convicted Delhi resident Chanderhas Yadav, a father of two children. “The accused had represented falsely […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat raping on marriage pretext raping woman on marriage pretext
