The Bombay High Court has ruled that a woman cannot file a domestic violence complaint in a city she is only visiting. The decision came after a woman filed a DV case in Mumbai while staying there temporarily to meet her brother.
In a case dating back to 2017, the Calcutta High Court directed a decorated husband to pay ₹2 lakh monthly as interim relief to his journalist wife, even though domestic violence charges were not proven.
The Bombay High Court ruled that a husband’s girlfriend cannot be charged under Section 498A IPC as she is not a relative. The court quashed the FIR filed against her in a domestic violence case.
The Bombay High Court ruled that to prove an offense under Section 498A, a woman must show continuous cruelty near the time of the complaint.
The Kerala High Court ruled that a divorced wife cannot claim residence in her ex-husband’s house as a shared household. The court upheld the eviction order, stating that she had no legal right to stay there.
A Mumbai court refused to grant maintenance to a woman earning more than her husband. However, it ordered the husband to pay child support despite his denial of paternity.
A Delhi court refused maintenance to an MBA graduate wife, citing her ability to earn and discouraging willful unemployment and dependency on her husband.
In a bizarre incident in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, police used a bulldozer to ensure a woman’s entry into her in-laws’ house after they refused to let her in, following a domestic violence complaint.
A youth and his father tragically died by suicide in Kerala after a domestic violence complaint by the youth’s wife. The incident highlights the devastating consequences of unresolved family conflicts.
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.
