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Bombay High Court at Mumbai is one of the oldest High Courts of India MUMBAI: “Mere failure of wife to do chores such as cooking, cleaning does not automatically amount to cruelty as marriage is a partnership of equals and not a service contract and the wives are not ‘deemed maids’,” said Bombay High Court…
Celina Jaitly broke down on Mother’s Day, revealing she is unable to see or speak to her three children amid her ongoing divorce battle with husband Peter Haag. Mumbai Police have filed an FIR against Haag and issued a Look Out Circular following her complaint of abuse and harassment. Celina Jaitly has been in the…
NEW DELHI: National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has for the first time tracked the cases of cruelty against animals and compiled the data, noting registration of 9,039 cases and arrest of 10,312 persons in the country in 2024.Maharashtra recorded highest number (2,356) of such cases followed by Madhya Pradesh (1,346), Uttar Pradesh (1,121), Gujarat (526)…
JAIPUR: A family court in Jaipur has granted divorce to a man and held that objectionable social media activity by his wife amounted to mental cruelty.“The ruling highlights that social media conduct and online behaviour may be treated as relevant evidence in matrimonial disputes where it causes humiliation or emotional trauma to a spouse,” DS…
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…
