The Delhi High Court has quashed a rape FIR against a father-in-law, stating that resolving matrimonial disputes through settlement is encouraged if done without pressure or threat.
Mumbai Police booked a woman for abandoning her newborn baby in a hotel toilet bin. She delivered the child during a sudden labour and left him due to personal issues with her husband.
The Bombay High Court quashed a POCSO case after the victim, now over 18, stated she wants to marry the accused. The court accepted the couple’s decision and the man’s promise to marry her.
The Karnataka High Court stated that a man marrying again during an existing marriage is guilty of bigamy, even if his wife gives consent. Consent does not make the second or third marriage legal.
Two women and a man attacked a traffic policeman in Delhi after he stopped them for riding a scooter on the wrong side without helmets. The cop was chased and beaten up by the group.
The Allahabad High Court said a matrimonial case can be cancelled if the husband and wife settle their differences with a verified compromise deed. This was stated while quashing a criminal case filed under IPC and Dowry laws.
The Supreme Court of India ruled that a woman has the right to live in a shared household, and cannot be evicted simply because someone finds her presence unpleasant.
The Kerala High Court has said that Indian rape laws are not gender-neutral. It pointed out that while men can be prosecuted for sex under false promise of marriage, women cannot.
In a tragic incident from Maharashtra, a woman threw her six children into a well after a family fight. All six children died, and the mother has been arrested for murder.
A journalist in Chennai was denied a house after a male tenant objected to living next to a single woman. Her viral post highlights the ongoing rental bias against single female tenants in India.
