Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 3 -- Maintenance - Includes reasonable expenses on the marriage of an unmarried daughter...........
Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 20(3) -- Maintenance to daughter - "Reasonable expenditure" in the context of expenditure on marriage of an unmarried daughter will mean that it is fair and not too high - Court will have to reach to a sum primarily considering the financial status of parties...........
Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Section 20(3), Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151 -- Maintenance to daughter - "Reasonable expenditure" in the context of expenditure on marriage of an unmarried daughter - Father who may have means is directed to pay the amount of Rs.37 lacs to daughter for her marriage - Application disposed of...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia), (ib) -- Divorce - Cruelty and desertion - Vague and general allegations of cruelty and desertion against wife - Not a single specific incident narrated by husband which can be termed as cruelty on part of wife - More so, husband neither in pleadings nor during his deposition spelt out a word to indicate that behavior of wife was..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ib) -- Divorce - Desertion - Husband nowhere stated in his evidence as to when wife deserted him - Merely because wife stayed away to complete her studies cannot be said that she had deserted husband - Rather, evidence shows that husband had no accommodation and he is staying with his relatives and even not applied for any..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 11, 23 -- Annulment of marriage - When marriage is void u/s 11 of Act, decree or declaration u/s 11 cannot be refused by taking recourse to S.23 of Act as void marriage cannot be legalized by S.23 of Act...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 11 -- Word `may' in S.11 of Act tantamounts to say that a marriage will not be presumed to be void unless declared to be so by Court and it apparently militates with legislative mandate in opening part of S.11 of Act...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 23 -- S.23 of Act needs harmonious construction and cannot be used to defeat legislative intent behind enacting S.5(i) or S.11 of Hindu Marriage Act...........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Mental cruelty - False allegations - Wife levelling false allegation against husband regarding his illicit affair with another woman - Departmental inquiry against husband proved him innocent - Due to false allegation, husband suffered disrepute and even temporary suspension, which was later quashed - Such false..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - If a false criminal complaint is preferred by either spouse it would invariably and indubitably constitute matrimonial cruelty and entitle the other spouse to claim divorce...........
