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NEW DELHI: Emphasising that household chores should be shared between husband and wife, Supreme Court on Friday observed that times have changed and a husband must share the burden of work. “You’re not marrying a maid, you’re marrying a life partner,” said a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta to a man seeking…
The Court acknowledged that the dowry harassment and domestic cruelty remain harsh realities of the Indian Society. (AI image) In a significant decision delivered on 15.04.2025, the Supreme Court firmly refused to interfere with the constitutionality of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (now Section 84 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023). While acknowledging…
NEW DELHI: A man asking his wife to maintain an Excel sheet for all the household expenses cannot be termed as cruelty to initiate criminal proceedings, Supreme Court on Friday said while quashing an FIR registered by the wife against her husband. The court said that it maybe a reflection of Indian society where men…
RAIPUR: The Chhattisgarh high court has observed that a woman’s repeated threats of dying by suicide amounts to mental cruelty towards her husband. Also, attempts at ‘self-harm’ and persistent pressure on the husband to convert his religion, too, amounted to mental cruelty, the court noted.A division bench of Justices Rajani Dubey and Amitendra Kishore Prasad…
Actress Celina Jaitly has been in the news lately for filing a plea to the Delhi High Court to ask for help for her brother Major Vikrant Jaitley who has been detained in the United Arab Emirates for 14 months. Meanwhile now, in a shocking turn of events, the actress has taken a legal action…
AI image for representative purposes The Delhi High Court recently upheld a Family Court decree granting divorce to a husband on the grounds of mental cruelty under Section 13(1)(ia) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.The couple, married in March 1990, had a son in 1997. Over time, the husband alleged that his wife’s conduct during…
NEW DELHI: Cases of crimes against women rose marginally by 0.7% in 2023 to 4.48 lakh from 4.45 lakh in 2022. As in past years, ‘cruelty by husband or relatives’ accounted for the largest share at 29.8% (1.33 lakh cases) involving 1.35 lakh victims, according to NCRB’s Crime in India 2023 report. In 2022, this…
