A 20-year-old youth accused of rape was found dead in Noida police custody, sparking outrage. Police personnel were suspended, and an FIR for abetment to suicide was registered against the complainant woman.
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 Court ruled that removing innerwear did not amount to attempt to rape.
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 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 1 lakh monthly alimony to his wife.
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 ruled that in such cases, the wife’s consent is immaterial as marital rape is not recognized in India.
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 father.
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 under the Hindu Marriage Act.
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.
