The Bombay High Court upheld a Family Court’s decision to grant divorce to a husband, citing emotional cruelty by the wife. The court found that denying intimacy, making false allegations, and public humiliation amounted to mental cruelty.
Gurugram police arrested a woman for falsely accusing a man of rape and demanding Rs 10 lakh to withdraw the case. The truth came out through a recorded phone call during the investigation.
The Bombay High Court ruled that the absence of a wisdom tooth is not enough to prove a survivor’s age in a POCSO case. The accused was acquitted as the prosecution failed to confirm that the victim was under 18.
A 72-year-old man from Jorhat, Assam, died by suicide after a secretly recorded intimate video of him with a college girl went viral online. The accused woman has been arrested, and investigations are ongoing.
The Delhi High Court has raised concerns about false rape charges being added in matrimonial disputes, only to be later settled. The Court stressed that such misuse of legal provisions against husbands and their families must stop.
An Ahmedabad court has ruled that rape charges cannot be used to compel a man to marry. The court acquitted Bhavesh Patel, accused of rape on a false promise of marriage, highlighting that a relationship with a still-married woman could not be treated as cheating.
The Madras High Court reduced the sentence of two women convicted of abetting a 15-year-old girl’s suicide, citing internalised misogyny and societal conditioning as mitigating factors in their behavior.
A 23-year-old man, arrested for kidnapping and raping a minor girl he was in love with, died by suicide inside Surat Central Jail. He left a note suggesting a love angle behind the incident.
A 22-year-old woman was arrested in Gurugram for allegedly filing a false rape complaint against two men and extorting ₹2 lakh from them. She had previously filed a similar complaint in Delhi and later retracted her statement during court proceedings.
The Kerala High Court has ruled that a married woman cannot claim she was forced into sex based on a false promise of marriage. The court also noted that such claims must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, especially when both parties know the woman is married.
