Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Mental cruelty - It is a state of mind and feeling with one of the spouses due to behavior or behavioral pattern by other - Concept of cruelty varies from time to time, place to place and from individual to individual in its application according to socio-economic status, economic conditions and various other..........
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Section 13(1)(ia) -- Divorce - Cruelty - For divorce on ground of cruelty social and economic status of parties and also their educational and family background are relevant - However, for showing cruelty, spouse seeking divorce must prove that conduct of other party was and remained such that it became impossible for party seeking divorce, to..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Grave criminal offence or economic offence - Compromise/settlement - Held, a grave criminal offence or serious economic offence or an offence having potentiality to create a dent in the financial health of the institution is not to be quashed on the ground that there is delay in trial or that matter has been settled and..........
Economic offences -- Lack of awareness, knowledge or intent is neither to be considered nor accepted in economic offences...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- Economic offences - Serious charges of forgery - Settlement with bank - Proceedings cannot be quashed merely on the ground that accused has settled the amount with bank...........
Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Section 3 -- Expression `domestic violence' yields to myriad manifestations - It relates to physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal and emotional abuse or economic abuse - Said expression embraces relationship where parties had lived together in past on account of marriage or like relationships...........
Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Section 3 -- Domestic violence - Economic abuse - Denial of economic support/sustenance to a divorced wife living penury would amount to `economic abuse' constituting domestic violence under the Act, as continuity of joint residence in a shared household or domestic relationship inter se is not a sine qua non for..........
Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Section 3, 12, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 468 -- Domestic violence - Limitation - Domestic violence in the form of `economic abuse' continued even after divorce on a day to day basis and proceedings u/s 12 of the Act cannot therefore be said to be time barred on that score...........
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 8(c), 20(b) -- Recovery of 5 kgs ganja - Reduction of sentence - Poor socio-economic conditions of accused and fact that accused facing trial for more than a decade is no ground for reduction of sentence - Taking into account the seriousness of offence committed by accused and large quantity of ganja involved in..........
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 19 -- Sanction for prosecution - Validity - Power to grant sanction with Department of Law and Justice is conferred by notification dated 3.2.1988 - Circular dated 28.2.1998 does not confer any new power and it only clarifies that Department of Law and Justice is a competent authority not only in respect of investigations made by..........
