The Karnataka High Court has recently observed that the objective of granting maintenance is to ensure that the dependent spouse was not reduced to destitution or vagrancy, and not as…
While quashing the FIR for the offence punishable under Sections 376(2)(N), 506 and 34 of Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) and its subsequent criminal proceedings, a Single bench comprising of Deepak…
The Bombay High Court said on Thursday that it cannot pass directions to make Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which criminalises cruelty to wife by husband or…
The Court was hearing an appeal by a woman and her child challenging the order of the sessions court (appellate court) reducing the maintenance granted to the woman from ₹10,000…