The Punjab & Haryana High Court fined a woman ₹1 lakh for filing a false cruelty case against her 100% disabled in-laws. The court found the allegations impossible and declared the FIR a misuse of law.
The Karnataka High Court quashed a dowry case against a US-based man, ruling that his wife misused the law by filing false charges. The Court allowed him to pursue malicious prosecution under Section 211 IPC.
The Telangana High Court ruled that damaging a spouse’s reputation or restricting access to Facebook and Instagram can amount to cruelty. Granting divorce to a husband, the Court found that repeated false criminal cases and desertion showed the marriage had irretrievably broken down.
The Allahabad High Court directed a man to either undergo a DNA test or pay maintenance to his children, stressing that denying support due to paternity disputes violates children’s fundamental rights.
The Gauhati High Court ruled that a healthy and able-bodied husband cannot escape his legal duty to maintain his wife under Section 125 CrPC. The Court rejected excuses of unemployment, stressing that a wife has the right to live with dignity.
The Karnataka High Court has ruled that the POCSO Act is gender neutral and applies to both men and women. It refused to quash the FIR against a 52-year-old woman accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy in Bengaluru.
The Supreme Court dissolved a marriage citing irretrievable breakdown and ordered the husband to pay ₹1.25 crore alimony to his wife. The settlement will be paid in five instalments, ensuring closure after 15 years of litigation.
The Patna High Court ruled that ₹7,000 per month is a meagre amount in today’s time and upheld the Family Court’s order directing a fruit seller husband to pay maintenance to his wife.
The Delhi High Court ruled that merely seeing a woman crying cannot prove dowry harassment. The Court upheld the discharge of her husband and in-laws, noting that the woman died of pneumonia, not cruelty.
The Gujarat High Court has held that in maintenance cases involving self-employed husbands in the unorganised sector, courts can use reasonable guesswork to determine income when true figures are hidden.
