Indian man has human rights too
The Rajasthan High Court acquitted a man of attempt to rape in a 1991 case but convicted him for outraging the modesty of a six-year-old girl under Section 354 IPC.…
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…
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…
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…
The Gujarat High Court dissolved a marriage after a pilot installed CCTV cameras in all rooms and microphones in bathrooms, calling it cruelty. The husband was ordered to pay Rs…
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that unnatural sex with a legally wedded wife above 15 years of age is not an offence under Section 377 IPC. The court…
The Calcutta High Court has ruled that DNA evidence alone is not conclusive in rape cases, upholding the trial against an accused despite a report excluding him as the child’s…
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld a divorce for a man whose wife refused to live with his elderly mother and mentally ill sister, ruling it as 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 Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld an order granting ₹1,500 monthly maintenance to a woman after a long live-in relationship, even without proof of legal marriage.
Shruti Mahapatra