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 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.
The Bombay High Court has upheld an order requiring a working woman to pay ₹10,000 monthly maintenance to her unemployed, ill ex-husband under the Hindu Marriage Act.
The Supreme Court acquitted a man in his wife’s suicide case after 30 years, saying mere harassment is not enough to prove abetment under Section 306 IPC and warning that the criminal justice process itself can sometimes be a punishment.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court fined a woman ₹1 lakh for continuing criminal proceedings against her ex-husband despite a ₹50 lakh settlement and mutual divorce, calling it a misuse of the legal process.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court granted divorce to a man after finding that his wife had coached their daughter to speak against him and kept them apart, amounting to mental cruelty.
The Allahabad High Court has clarified that a woman can still seek relief under the Domestic Violence Act even if her marriage is later declared null and void, as long as she lived in a domestic relationship with the man before separation.
