The Delhi High Court acquitted four men accused of abduction and gang-rape in 2018, citing flaws in the investigation and lack of strong evidence from the victim and prosecution.
The Gujarat High Court ruled that Family Courts must use guesswork to assess a husband’s income in the unorganized sector when deciding maintenance pleas, as income is often difficult to determine.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that a woman in a long-term live-in relationship is entitled to receive maintenance after separation, even if they were not legally married.
The Bombay High Court has ordered a working woman to pay ₹10,000 in monthly maintenance to her unemployed, ill ex-husband. The court emphasized that both men and women are equally responsible for providing support under the Hindu Marriage Act.
A family court in Madhya Pradesh ordered a woman to pay ₹5,000 in monthly maintenance to her husband after separation. The case involved a husband who left college at his wife’s request and claimed unemployment while she ran a beauty parlour.
The Karnataka High Court doubled a stay-at-home mother’s maintenance, acknowledging that caring for children is a full-time job. The court dismissed the husband’s claims of financial instability and increased her maintenance from ₹18,000 to ₹36,000.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court fined a woman ₹1 lakh for misusing the legal process by continuing a case against her ex-husband even after a mutual divorce and settlement. The court found the charges baseless and driven by ulterior motives.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court ruled that a wife cannot be denied maintenance simply because she is qualified, unless it is proven she quit her job to seek support. Both the husband’s challenge and the wife’s request for more maintenance were rejected.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that a mother coaching her daughter to speak against her father amounts to mental cruelty, upholding a divorce petition filed by the father. The court highlighted the harmful effects of parental alienation in such cases.
The Allahabad High Court has ruled that a woman can seek relief under the DV Act even after her marriage is declared null and void, upholding her rights as an aggrieved person in a domestic relationship.
