Top Law News Cops can’t be used to pressurise others under DV act April 18, 2016 by Legal India News | 1 Comment on Cops can’t be used to pressurise others under DV act The Domestic Violence Act cannot be made a tool for using cops to pressurise others, a Delhi court has said while dismissing a woman’s plea seeking police protection to attend her daughter’s wedding. The court dismissed the woman’s appeal seeking presence of two policemen to pressurise her husband and in-laws to let her attend the […] Read more » Court Delhi court Domestic Violence Act' DV act featured Law Legal News
Family Law News Husband cannot shirk liability to maintain wife: Court January 16, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The husband cannot shirk his liability to maintain his wife on the pretext that she is qualified and competent enough to take a suitable job, a Delhi court has observed while directing a man to pay his estranged wife a monthly interim maintenance in a domestic violence case. Metropolitan Magistrate Mona Tardi Kerketta directed the […] Read more » Court Domestic Violence Act' Husband cannot shirk liability to maintain wife Metropolitan Magistrate Mona Tardi Kerketta
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
Top Law News Court allows DNA test of children in domestic violence case November 20, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has allowed DNA test of a couple’s two children in a domestic violence case to elicit the “truth regarding their paternity” following a plea of the husband who had accused his wife of adultery and claimed he had not sired them. “Husband cannot be compelled to bear fatherhood of a child when […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Pulastya Pramachala DNA test of children Domestic Violence Act' domestic violence case
Top Law News “DV Act can’t be used against sister or sister-in-law” June 12, 2014 / June 12, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Union Government on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that a woman cannot invoke the Domestic Violence Act to lodge a complaint against her own sister or the brother’s wife. A division bench, headed by Justice Mohit Shah, is currently hearing a petition filed by a mother-daughter duo challenging the validity of section 2(q) […] Read more » Bombay High Court Domestic Violence Act' Justice Mohit Shah news Petitioners Kusum Harsora todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News In-laws living away from couple can’t be tried under DV Act: HC April 15, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: “A matrimonial dispute a woman cannot seek protection from her in-laws under the Domestic Violence Act if they live separately from the couple,” mentioned by the Delhi High court here. The court, however, said if the woman faced any kind of violence or harassment from her in-laws, who live far distance from the […] Read more » Delhi High Court domestic relationship Domestic Violence Act' emotional or economic harassment by in laws physical or sexual protection under Domestic Violence Act
Top Law News ‘Law, Home ministries not split on anti-rape bill’ March 11, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rejecting suggestions that ministries are split over various provisions of the proposed anti-rape bill, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar has said proposals are brought before the Union Cabinet after sufficient discussions. He also said that there is no finality in law making and the government is open for persuasion when the proposed Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, […] Read more » anti rape bill Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2013 Domestic Violence Act' Home ministries Home Ministry Houses of Parliament Law Home ministries Union Cabinet
Family Law News PIL seeks officers to protect domestic violence victims February 25, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Alleging that the Domestic Violence Act was not being implemented, a PIL has urged the Bombay High Court to direct the Maharashtra government to immediately appoint full-time officers to protect victims of domestic violence. Appointment of such full time ‘protection officers’ is mandatory under the Domestic Violence Act which came into being in 2005 but […] Read more » Bombay High Court Domestic Violence Act' domestic violence victims JMFC court Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Maharashtra government Masters in Social Service PIL Secretary of Women and Child Welfare Department
Media & Entertainment News ‘Live-in’ partner of Rajesh Khanna moves Court November 9, 2012 / November 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment According to the order of Bandra Metropolitan court, that notice be issued to the family members of Rajesh Khanna on a complaint filed by a woman, claiming to be the late superstar’s live-in partner and seeking maintenance on the ground that she had looked after the actor as a wife would have done. In Anita […] Read more » Akshay Kumar Anita Advani Ashirwad Bandra Metropolitan court Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate bungalow in Bandra Dimple Kapadia Domestic Violence Act' Khanna since 2003 Live-in Rajesh Khanna Rajesh Khanna moves Court Rinki Saran Twinkle Kumar
Top Law News Domestic Violence: Man who helps woman can get protection July 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As we all know that Domestic Violence Act protects women against violence but now even men will be protected by Domestic Violence Act. A Pune court has passed an order, that has established that any man who is assisting the aggrieved woman can also be given protection. Judicial magistrate first class Vinay V Muglikar of […] Read more » domestic violence Domestic Violence Act' DVA protection of women from brothers under Domestic Violence Act protection of women under Domestic Violence Act
Top Law News ”Man can’t be evicted if he gets wife a home”. June 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If a man arranges an alternative accommodation for his estranged wife, she cannot take recourse to the Domestic Violence Act to force her husband to leave his house, the Delhi high court has said. Justice M L Mehta gave the ruling while disposing of a city’s resident plea for quashing of his wife’s complaint for […] Read more » ”Man can’t be evicted Domestic Violence Act' Justice M.L. Mehta
Top Law News Woman double-crosses court for son’s custody, gets rap February 25, 2012 / February 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court issued a contempt of court notice to a woman for foxing a magistrate into awarding her son’s custody to her, hiding the fact that another court had given his custody to her husband. A bench headed by Justice Vipin Sanghi said: “She is guilty of contempt of court as she has […] Read more » Delhi High Court Domestic Violence Act' Justice Vipin Sanghi
