2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (519+ words) Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur has dismissed a second appeal challenging a first appellate court's finding that the plaintiffs, born of a long-standing cohabitation between their parents, were entitled to a 2/5th share in the suit property, holding…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (260+ words) Justice M. Nagaprasanna dismissed a petition filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita seeking quashment of proceedings in C.C. No.15565 of 2025, registered for offences under Sections 75, 78 and 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Applying these principles, the Court found the case…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (225+ words) Holding that the Family Court had correctly appreciated the evidence in granting the divorce, and that the appeal in any event stood liable to be treated as infructuous in light of the wife's remarriage following the earlier dismissal for non-prosecution,…...

1+ mon, 1+ hour ago   (274+ words) Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that a wife’s failure to perform daily household chores such as cooking and cleaning does not automatically constitute mental cruelty, setting aside a family court’s decree of divorce granted on that ground and…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (366+ words) Nainital: The High Court of Uttarakhand at Nainital has refused to quash criminal proceedings against a man accused of bigamy under Section 494 of the Indian Penal Code, holding that whether the essential ceremonies of the alleged second marriage, including Saptapadi,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (521+ words) Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has set aside a trial court order that dismissed a joint petition for divorce by mutual consent and simultaneously directed registration of a criminal case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, holding…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (526+ words) New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has held that while a spouse is legally entitled to withdraw consent for the grant of divorce by mutual consent, such withdrawal is not permissible where the parties had earlier entered into a…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (300+ words) The Supreme Court of India has held that the persistent refusal of sexual intercourse without reasonable cause constitutes mental cruelty within the meaning of Section 13(1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and has further held that a prolonged separation of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (414+ words) Chennai: The Madras High Court has granted divorce to a husband, holding that a wife’s act of arranging and solemnising the marriage of their daughter without the husband’s knowledge amounted to mental cruelty. The Court observed that a father’s pain…...

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